When we talk about the crusades, we almost always associate them with the military campaigns waged in the Holy Land against the infidels, but this type of campaign also took place in Europe:the Southern Crusade, as Juan Antonio Cebrián called the Spanish Reconquest, the Crusade against the Cathars…
We will start with the lepero for being the one known on this side of the pond… Leperos They are the inhabitants of the Huelva municipality of Lepe in Spain, which, among many other things, could be said to have been the birthplace of a king of England... Juan de Lepe . And regarding the léperos …
Formerly, madness was identified with supernatural evils, typical of demonic possessions or as divine punishments for sins committed. Later it began to be identified as the loss of reason whose only remedy was confinement and the savage experiments, more typical of torture, to which the sick were su
In the history of the papacy to the period between the appointment of Sergio III in 904 and the death of John XII in 964 it was called Saeculum Obscurum (the dark ages) although it is better known as Whore Rules or Pornocracy as collected in his Ecclesiastical Annals the 16th-century cardinal and hi
Can you kill after death? Very difficult but... During the 9th century, one of the threats that the King of Norway Harald I had to face was were the constant raids by pirates against Norway. So, in 875 he led an expedition to punish and conquer his base of operations... Orkney and Shetland Islands
Its called Hundred Years War to the war between France and England that, in reality, lasted 116 years, from 1337 to 1453. Logically, and by approximation, it would be more appropriate to call a war conflict the Hundred Years War that lasted 102 years… between Montenegro and Japan . The oppression o
If we search for congress in the RAE, the third and fourth meanings, with an initial capital letter, define it as the building where the deputies to the Cortes hold their sessions and the national assembly in some countries, respectively. Our Congress which, in theory, is the constitutional body th
From the end of the 15th century, the island of Cyprus was under the rule of the Republic of Venice and became one of the most important commercial centers in the Mediterranean. Almost a century later, the sultan Selim II seized power in the Ottoman Empire. . He always showed more concern for poetry
The famous phrase I did not send my ships to fight against the elements attributed to Philip II, after the disaster of the Invincible Armada in its attempt to conquer England in 1588, could well have been pronounced by Kublai Khan in his two attempts to conquer Japan three centuries earlier. If tod
February 28, 1462 was a great day for the Crown of Castile. After years without children, due to her problems getting married, Enrique IV got an heir, in this case, heiress:the future princess of Asturias, Juana . If the nickname of the Powerless for him it was justified, not least that of the Bel
At school they taught me that the discoverer of the American continent -logically for the Europeans, because the pre-Columbian peoples were already there- was Christopher Columbus in 1492 , but from those years to today -and it has already rained a lot-, many hypotheses have been emerging that debun
Ricardito King Richard III (palote, palote, palote) from England, better known by Ricardo “Corazón de León” , was born in Oxford, although he never got to study university, why? he was the king. He saw the light on September 8, 1157, son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. We all hav
I guess its easy to relate the terms organ and dirty, and associate it with sexual organ. Well no, nothing is further from reality. Louis XI of France , the Prudent (1423 – 1483). He was an authoritarian king who was characterized by the love-hate relationship with his father, Carlos VII, who stil
In other posts we have talked about the castrati, the eunuchs in China (which we call the patron saint of the eunuchs), today we have the eunuchs in Al-Andalus. The fate of the «infidels » captured in battles or raids by the armies of Al-Andalus was enslaved or joined the army as mercenaries. Among
At the age of 15, the Prince of Asturias and heir to the Crown of Castile, the future Henry IV , he married the infanta Blanca de Navarra . After several years of marriage without issue, the rumor began to spread that the prince was impotent and, logically, the nickname with which he went down in
After the death of the King of England, Edward the Confessor , and breaking the agreement that he had signed with the Duke of Normandy, William , Harold was made king . In 1066, claiming a legitimate claim to the island, William invaded England. On October 14 the Saxon and Norman forces met at Has
Thanks to Braveheart , winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, which Mel Gibson directed, produced and starred in, we all know the Scottish national hero William Wallace . The film, with abundant artistic licenses and some historical overtones, is based on the epic poem «The Actes and Deidis of the Il
Although I suppose that the scientific police will not be very happy, because of the unreal investigations, the American TV series Crime Scene Investigation or CSI on forensic scientists has become very popular. Pure science fiction technology mixed with original research methods and accompanied by
Ambition and revenge give rise to stupidities like exhuming a corpse to stand trial. The Pope Formosus I he was the one who suffered in his flesh, rather in his bones and the remains of his putrid body, this farce at the end of the 9th century. Formosus I a Pope who, for the time, could be classifi
There are many people, among whom I include myself, that the act of going to the doctor supposes a superhuman effort. I have never liked the smell of hospitals and health centers, it makes me a little nervous. I admit that it is stupid, but if we look back to the Middle Ages, we will understand that
The terrible 22, the Asia Minor disaster, probably the biggest in the history of Hellenism, will always be a milestone that intersects its modern history. A catastrophe which, apart from the end of the centuries-old Greek presence in the East, also marked the end of the Great Idea. That is, the visi
Fulvia , wife of Marco Antonio, was a woman who rebelled against the role attributed to her by Roman society - that of a mere troupe - and who played an important role in the decisions of her own husband - as in her two previous marriages - and, therefore, of the second triumvirate that ruled Rome (
At the beginning of 418, Walia reached a decisive agreement with the imperial government for the Visigoth people . In exchange for military support in Hispania and against insurgent movements in the interior of Gaul, the Visigoths were authorized to settle in the province of Aquitania Secunda and in
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Juan Sin Tierra has gone down in history as a devious character, hated by his people, capable of betraying his brother Ricardo Corazón de León and conspiring so that he would not return from his captivity in Austria after his return from the Crusades. Novel