Tink's Medieval Times - Crusades O'Clock

Confession: This episode is more exciting than I was expecting.

I was expecting more Fatimid incompetence. I got it. But it came with a twist.

This episode has:

- Flamethrowers

- Angry people refusing to cooperate with each other

- People making promises they had no intention of keeping

- Flamethrowers that have run out of fuel

- The True Cross

- A man's decapitated head being used to scare away the Fatimid fleet

Excited? ... You should be...

#flamethrowers #deadduqaq #crusaders #truecross

Ready for another roller coaster? An epic showdown with the Fatimids? The King of Jerusalem escaping a tower, fleeing for 10 days through the desert, and nearly getting incinerated in some dried rushes?

If so, this is the episode for you!

#crusades #medieval #discoinferno

Well, just in case you thought the first part of the 1101 Crusade displayed enough poor leadership, disunity and incompetence, here's some more...

Be prepared to see the same battle fought twice, with Kiliq Arslan and Danishmend back in business together and rubbing their hands together with glee as they use the same tactics, in the same place, twice and get away with it.

Things go so badly here that I even end up feeling sorry for Raymond of Toulouse. At least no lions get killed though...

Enjoy!

#Crusades #river #ambush

A slight detour today, but an important and, I hope, exciting one. For the 1101 Crusade is here! Listen to find out what happens in phase 1. Phases 2 and 3 reserved for February.

Don't get your hopes up though. It doesn't go well... (unless you are rooting for Kiliq Arslan and Danishmend, and who isn't, secretly?)

And just remember, if you are having a bad day, at least you are not Stephen of Blois having returned prematurely from the First Crusade... Listen to find out why...

#Crusades #lions #Byzantium #Turkey

So...

We've had the First Crusade...

We've had Godfrey de Bouillon...

Baldwin of Edessa has battled through temptation and peril to take Jerusalem's crown...

And now we have reached his debut year!

The Good - he hunts down robbers and raiders on the road between Jerusalem and Ascalon. The Bad - he humiliates himself trying to pass judgement on Tancred of Galilee. The Ugly - The First Battle of Ramla (what a mess...)

Also... RIP Geldemar Carpenel #sadtimes

#Crusades #History #Baldwin #Jerusalem

Enjoy...

With Godfrey de Bouillon dead, Jerusalem is threatened by internal turmoil and external pressures. Does the Holy City need a Latin King? The Patriarch Daimbert doesn't think so...

However, Godfrey's old adherents in Jerusalem certainly do! Swept up by a deep seated loyalty to their former master, they contact his kinsman Baldwin, Count of Edessa, to come and take Godfrey's place at the head of the Jerusalemite state.

Tune in to find out how Baldwin responds, the long journey that he endures, and the means by which he takes power, preparing the ground for his crowning, which we will see in a month's time, in our next episode.

#Crusade #Jerusalem #Baldwin #GodWillsIt

I had no intention of this podcast becoming biographical, but Godfrey makes it too easy. His is a short reign, but one in which he achieves a lot, fitting neatly into 30 minutes and 18 seconds! So thank you Godfrey - I'm happy to have this episode dedicated to you!

He undoubtedly has more fun as Defender of the Holy Sepulchre than when the First Crusade was in session. He isn't, for example, attacked by a bear, and he gets to eat lots of oranges with the Emir of Caesarea. But it's not all plain sailing! He has to deal with bad weather, faulty siege machines, irritating Italian prelates and typhoid. Which is worse? (Probably typhoid...)

Anyway, hoorah for Godfrey! Defender of the Holy Sepulchre! One not to be missed.

#crusades #Jerusalem #oranges #typhoid

Having kept you on the edge of your seats for so long... please find the resolution to the terrible events of 1104!

How will Tancred keep Antioch safe from the depredations of Ridwan of Aleppo, Alexios Komnenos and the new ruler of Mosul Jawali Saqao?

How well will Bohemond fare in his celebrity tour of Europe and his grudge match against the Byzantine Empire?

How well will I fare in explaining the confusing events of the battle of Turbessel?

Find out by listening to episode 15!

#crusades #Bohemond #history

The first of our post "Fall of Jerusalem 1099" episodes drops! Thank you for your patience waiting for it.

The formation and consolidation of the Principality of Antioch is one complicated business... With a melting pot of Latins, Greeks, Armenians, Syrian Christians and Muslims to govern, the Norman princes Bohemond and Tancred have to move with a mixture of subtlety, precision and armed force to build and defend their little state.

Get ready for some epic showdowns at Melitene, Kella, Mersivan and Harran, a cracking double siege at Latakiah, and some devious political manouevrings from Antiochenes, Turks and Byzantines alike.

Warning. The episode concludes with a tantalising cliffhanger. Will you cope?

#Crusades #Antioch #Tancred #Bohemond #Baldwin #Harran

Jerusalem has fallen to the First Crusade. There is massed bloodshed and wanton murder, and those of the cities inhabitants that survive are subjected to the indignity of ransom, or wandering across Muslim Syria in search of support.

But where are the forces of the Great Seljuk Sultanate or the Fatimid Caliphate, I hear you ask!?

Tune in to find out more...

#Crusades #Jerusalem #Fatimids #Seljuks