Tales of the Crusaders – Remembering the Crusades in Britain

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Background
	Continuity and context
	Approach to the subject
	Notes
1 Reading about the crusades
	A bibliography
	Public and private libraries
	The visual image
	Periodicals
	Essays and reviews
		Sir Archibald Alison
		Hannah Lawrance
	Debate and discussion
	Articles on the crusades
	Records of reading
		Robert Southey
		William Morris
		Sir James Mackintosh
	General histories and collections
	Encyclopaedias
	Foreign publications
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Finding crusaders: Physical monuments and discoveries
	The crossed-legs effigy
	Family tales
	Tombs of crusaders
		Sir Richard Perceval: Weston Giordano, Somerset
		Gruffydd ap Llewellyn ap Ynyr of Ial: Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog
	Symbols of crusading
		The Cobham family
	Archaeological discoveries and debates
		Udard de Broham
		The Stock Gaylard crusader
	Heart burials
		The Leybourne heart
	Arms and armour
	Relics and mementoes
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 Crusading pedigrees
	Local and national crusaders
	Validating arms and pedigrees
	The crusade ancestor
	Lists of crusaders
	MS Ashmole 1120 ff. 171–4
	Wiffen’s list of English crusaders
	Dansey: The English Crusaders
	The De Lucys: An example of contradictory claims
	Percy, Dukes of Northumberland, and Courtenay,  Earls of Devon
	A petition for a crusade barony
	Literary crusaders
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 The heraldic crusader
	The history of heraldry and the crusades
	Heraldic symbols
	Saracen’s head
		Walpoles
		Wards
	Crosses and Crosslets
		Lawrence
	Stars
		De Vere
	Birds and animal crusaders
	Individual stories
		De Ros
	Some modern crusading echoes
	Arms as decoration: Louis Phillipe and Versailles
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 The absent and returning crusader
	The departure
	The returning crusader
	The Worsley pageant
	Perils of absence
	Gothic tales
	Marital complications
	Grieving at home
	Crusader ghosts
	The imprisoned crusader
	The jealous crusader
	Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index