"Northern Crusade guest knights, retinue too? " Topic
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Glengarry5 | 24 Jul 2018 2:11 a.m. PST |
I was reading that English knights were active in the Northern Crusades as "guest knights", guests of the Teutonic order. I was wondering if when these English knights went on what could be described as lethal tourist excursions would they have gone as individuals or would they have taken their retinue of foot soldiers, archers and light horse with them? Does anyone know? |
GurKhan | 24 Jul 2018 3:01 a.m. PST |
1367-68: "a total of ninety-seven men, ranging from the three sons of the Earl of Warwick, who travelled with nine esquires, twenty yeomen, thirty horses, and one thousand marks for expenses, to William Dalleson, esquire, accompanied by a solitary yeoman, two hacks, and thirty marks." from link Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Lancaster, in 1390 may be the biggest English expedition: "A herald estimated Bolingbroke's warband at fifty lances and sixty bowmen, probably including the Frenchmen who joined the expedition as well as those engaged locally." |
Irish Marine | 24 Jul 2018 5:22 a.m. PST |
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dapeters | 24 Jul 2018 9:09 a.m. PST |
The Teutonic order seemingly specialized in Crusade/vacations, wining and dining knights from all over Europe but particularly the north. (Delbruck?) |
Ragbones | 24 Jul 2018 10:31 a.m. PST |
Duncan, thanks for posting that! I'd not read that before. Great stuff. |
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