USA Does anyone know how many knights & men actually fought in the crusades?

[Dotty]

Question for a history buff.
Does anyone know how many knights & men actually fought in the crusades?

47 keniggits, 932 serfs, 13 wenches and 1 goat.

Dunno to be honest. Before accurate records were taken.

However I do know that the papal bull to dissolve the Templar order was issued on Friday 13th of October 1307 at the behest of King Phillip of France.

Probably doesn't help much....

 

[Riley]

What an utter fountain of knowledge you are cropster

 

[R.Oak]

I think logistics was the main reason the crusades failed, the armies starved whilst Saladin moved his army from water to water and waited

 

[wetdrip]

What an utter fountain of knowledge you are cropster

Na, he's read The Da Vinci code, same as half the planet

 

[Riley]

Ha ha.

 

[wetdrip]

I think logistics was the main reason the crusades failed, the armies starved whilst Saladin moved his army from water to water and waited

Exactly my thinking, I know about the ships they used, but still think they just about starved to death. What a thirst they must have had too, and chainmail in that heat.

 

[Dotty]

Na, he's read The Da Vinci code, same as half the planet

Naaa

Holy Blood, Holy Grail....

 

[Riley]

47 keniggits

was a dead giveaway