English people took part in the Crusa-

English people took part in the Crusa-

>English
>people

>non of the heads of military orders were English, therefore Richard the Lionhearted didn't exist

>Richard the Lionheart

OP said ENGLISH people

Nice joke Hans, but we all know who the real subhumans are.

Richard Coeur de Lion was french. Just like the nobility of England, which includes its knights in armor carrying banners, was french.

What part of "English" you don't understand?
Also, homos arent people

Crusaders were called "Franks" by Arabs

It's because, although Franks were no a thing since the late 9th century and a clear distinction existed between Germans and French (descendents of the former Franks), the French still LARPed as Franks (while the Germans had already accepted they were no longer Frankish) and still refered to themselves as such to the muslims

It's kinda like if a bunch of Cesare Borgia's troops had invaded the Levant and told everyone there they were Romans

but the "french" are really germanic people, so it was the germans all along great post top shelf stuff please e-mail me your next post so i can stay updated

the english nobility were french, so...

>germanic people
>so it was the germans

You're confusing German (Deutsch) with Germanic (Germanisch) because you're letting yourself fooled by English names

Germans are just one Germanic people among others (neither the oldest nor the purest), just like Poles are one Slavic people among others
For what matters, Germans are less Germanic than Dutch and Danes (pic related)

>all those "spaniards" are mostly actually Aragonese
Why was Castille autistic?

You are now being made really think

Actually England had a few Templars, but as you may have guessed, they were werent Englishmen but Frenchmen

Anyway in that era, any knight or nobility person in England was French

>all Germanics are Germans
Fuck off brainlet

"Yeah but see these knights coming from the Kingdom of France in the XIth Century ; They spoke a romance language since the VIth Century, they completly intermarried with the gaulish ethnic background of the country, but they called themselves "franks", the name of ONE of the many germanic tribes who were in the service of Rome, converted to christianity very early and led invasions on Saxony.
This means they were 100% germans and NOT FRENCH !"

Is northern Sicilia germanic?

>Richard the Lionhearted
That dude spent 6 months of his lifetime in Britain and couldn't even speak english.

The only English as in Anglo-Saxon participation was in the First Crusade when Edgar Atheling joined Robert Curthose. There was also a supposed Anglo-Saxon fleet that supplied the Crusaders in southern Turkey/northern Syria, but that's rather doubtful.

The only other time Anglo-Saxons set out for the Holy Land was during the Second Crusade. They got side-tracked along with other Western and Northern Europeans to helping the Siege of Lisbon, thus securing for Christian control.

England was treated as the Crusading bank; their main contribution outsides the incidents I listed was mainly as fund-raising. Mind you, there was no actual Anglo-Saxon knight or lord during that period since it was Norman families from the Conquest who held power and prestige.

Aren't European nobles pretty much separated from the people they ruled?
English nobles were Normans, rather than Anglo-Saxon.
French nobles were descended from a Germanic tribe, rather than Gauls.

>French nobles were descended from a Germanic tribe, rather than Gauls.
Yeah, but Franks acclimated to their Romano-Celtic subjects, thus the French language and culture was formed.

In England, it happened much slower and there was actual discrimination against the Anglo-Saxon majority. Very little intermarriage amongst the nobility and no Anglo-Saxon was a lord or knight post-1066 to the Hundred Years War.

>The Catholic Church answers only to God and isn't just the puppet of worldly lea-