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[Blue Sky Country]

Holy Warriors: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin and their struggle for Jerusalem.

One of the greatest BBC productions ever made in the early 2010s, along with the Timeline series, and 1066: The Battle for Middle Earth, retelling the tragic story of a Sussex village during the Norman conquest. HOLY WARRIORS: RICHARD THE LIONHEART AND SALADIN.



The Third Crusade in 1190, also known as the Crusade of The Three Kings, saw Richard I, one of the most fearsome and legendary kings of England facing off against Saladin (Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi), the Islamic world's greatest leader for the greatest prize in the known world, the holy city of Jerusalem where both Christians and Muslims recognize as sites of supernatural revelations for their prophets. Two years before Richard's arrival in the Holy Land, Saladin's Ayyubid army had retaken Jerusalem from the earlier Crusaders. Now, the Holy City is once again on the line as two of the greatest warriors in the world prepared to give all to reclaim the city.

Richard and Saladin were not just renowned knights in their world, but were true men of honor whose legendary showdown during the Third Crusade set the standard for all modern diplomacy, negotiation, and mutual understanding even in the chaos of war. Years later, a German nun by the name of Hildegard von Bingen, an accomplished author, folk musician with hundreds of instrumental ballads to her name, and one of the most vaunted matron of letters of the Middle Ages, would document that in the "very first ideal of European chivalry, Saladin, his generosity, honor, and upholding of the values of respect and virtue, would be the leading example".

 

[Redlion]

First Crusade a win for Christianity. Second Crusade a win for the barbarians. Third Crusade a tie.

 

[Maxduty]

Sorry, not watching anything with the precursor BBC.

 

[Niles Coyote]

AH, the great Crusades, to locate and retrieve all the old tablets and artifacts that show a different history than that imposed on us by the church.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

AH, the great Crusades, to locate and retrieve all the old tablets and artifacts that show a different history than that imposed on us by the church.

THE SPICE MUST FLOW!!!

But seriously though, considering that most people during the Middle Ages rarely even left the manors that they were born in simply because there was so much work that had to be done on the farm, or the smith's shop in the case of a townsman, to give up everything to go on a Crusade, essentially completely relocating to another land so far away, would have been a monumental decision a man could make during that time. When historical sources documented that King Richard I and all of his nobles, and their men at arms were willing and ready to give their entire estates to the aid of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, leaving their entire lives behind them to embark on a journey where they knew many of them would never return home, one cannot help but see the same situation recreated in the part of Dune when the House of Atreides took up the Padishah Emperor's orders to relocate their entire base to Arrakis, leaving their castle at Caladan where so many of their generations grew up in. The emotions that are involved with such a decision was beautifully rendered by Frank Herbert, and the director Dennis Villeneuve.

 

[Charger442]

Kingdom of Heaven is a movie i always watch when its on. very interesting history of that time in the Holy Land.

i always wonder if they really had the respect for each other that they portrayed.