Crusader Criminals

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Amongst the countless crusaders who travelled to the Holy Land, there were undoubtedly some who believed they were doing the right thing for their God and King. Others though were gangsters, bandits and even worse, murderers and rapists, bringing horror and terror to the region. In fact, the real tensions stemmed not from religion but from young men - dislocated, disinhibited and present in disturbingly large numbers.

Matt Lewis finds out more about the shocking levels of criminality during the Crusades from Steve Tibble. They discuss those who used the cover of Holy War to commit a variety of crimes and how the clues are everywhere, even in the film Casablanca.

Gone Medieval is presented by Matt Lewis. The editor is Ella Blaxill, the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Matt Lewis. Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the
0:07.1	podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history. We've got the
0:12.4	most intriguing mysteries, the gob-smacking details
0:16.0	and latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the printing press, from Kings to
0:20.9	popes to the Crusades.
0:22.8	We cross centuries and continents to delve into rebellions,
0:26.4	plots and murders to find the stories big and small
0:29.8	that tell us how we got here.
0:32.2	Find out who we really were with gone medieval.
0:39.5	The Crusades are a long and violent and problematic series of conflicts with an enduring legacy.
0:46.5	And doubtedly, some who travelled to the Holy Land believed they were doing the right thing,
0:51.6	just as those defending their homes did. Today's
0:53.9	guest though has taken a look at the murkier underbelly of the Crusades, at those
0:58.8	who were probably not there for some noble purpose. Steve Tibble was last with us to talk about the
1:04.2	Knights Templar in Britain, but Steve's new book, Crusader criminals, explores those who used
1:10.6	the cover of holy war to commit a variety of crimes. So welcome back to
1:14.9	government evil Steve. Thank you mad. Yeah very very lovely to be talking to you
1:18.8	again. I should stress that you're absolutely right we are talking about the Crusades and criminality but we really are talking about it in the round so we're not just talking about people leaving Europe leaving England and then going out to the Middle East. We're talking about people from
1:35.8	afar afield, there's the borders of China, Sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt, Syria, everybody fighting in the period of the Crusades and everybody more or less thought
1:45.5	they had a holy war to fight and they all behave badly. So why was this? Yeah, very good point.
1:51.6	Yeah, hopefully we'll give equal opportunity to
1:53.8	criminals everywhere to get their moment during this this episode I guess the
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