Images from the Salles des Croisades at Versailles (1839-1842)

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1099: August 12

"Battle on the plain of Ascalon, in which Godefroy de Bouillon defeated the Vizier Afdal"

Victor Schnetz

Battle on the Plain of Ascalon: detail

Victor Schnetz

Battle on the Plain of Ascalon: detail

Victor Schnetz

Battle on the Plain of Ascalon: detail

Victor Schnetz

1100: January

"Godefroy de Bouillon holding the first Assizes of the kingdom of Jerusalem, January, 1100"

Pierre-Jules Jollivet

1100: July 23

"Funeral of Godfrey of Bouillon on the Mount of Calvary, at Jerusalem"

Edouard Cibot

1100 / 1118

"Baldwin of Boulogne, Count of Edessa, King of Jerusalem in 1100, in the style Baldwin I (1058-1118)"

Merry Joseph Blondel

1109: April

"Bertrand de Saint-Gilles receiving the submission of the Cadi Fakr el-Moulk, after taking the city of Tripoli"

Alexandre-Charles Debacq

1102: July

"Combat of the Crusaders at Jaffa, with Baldwin I and the Patriarch of Jerusalem at their head, against the Egyptian army of Vizier Al-Afdal"

Calixte Serrur

1112

"The death of Tancred of Hauteville"

attrib. Joseph Benoît Suvée

1113: February 15

"Institution of the Order of Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem in the Church of the Hospital of St. John (Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, investing Gérard "the Pious"as first Grand Master)"

Henri Decaisne

1118 / 1126

"Hugh de Payens, first Grand Master of the Order of lthe Temple (d. 1136)"

Henri Lehmann

1124

"The count of Tripoli recieves submission of the City of Tyre (accompanied by the Doge of Venice and the Patriarch of Jerusalem)"

Alexandre-François Caminade

1128

"Official recognition, by Pope Honorius II, of the Order of the Templars at the Council of Troyes"

Granet François-Marius

1130

"Defense at Célésyrie by Raymond Dupuy, 1130"

Edouard Cibot

1145

Pope Eugenius III receives at Viterbo the ambassadors of Baldwin III of Jerusalem, come to demand aid after the fall of Edessa to Zenghi, Atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo"

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot

1146: March 31

"Saint Bernard preaching the Second Crusade before King Louis VII, his queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Abbot Suger, at Vézelay in Burgundy, March 31, 1146"

Emile Signol

1147

"King Louis VII takes the Oriflamme at Saint-Denis, in the presence of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, and receives the bourdon and pannetière of a pilgrim from the hands of Pope Eugenius III, before his departure for the Second Crusade in 1147"

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse

1147: April 22

"Assembly of the Knights Templars under the magistracy of Robert le Bourguignon, held at Paris before Pope Eugenius III and King Louis VII, 22 avril 1147

François-Marius Granet

1147: October 21

"Taking of Lisbon, occupied by the Arabs, by Alfonso I Henriques of Burgundy, king of Portugal, with the aid of the French, English, German and Flemish Crusader army, 21 October 1147"

Auguste-François Desmoulins