2018年3月20日 · This is the famous gonfalon baucent, or the piebald standard. We know about this standard from the Rule of the Templars. We know about this standard from the Rule of the Templars. The Hospitaller standard was a white cross on a red field, and the standard of the Teutonic knights was a black cross on a white field.

2019年2月4日 · Let us be more considerate: in spite of the broadness of the question, we can say general things that e.g kissing (as lovers) was definitely considered a private activity, not something for public display up to later half of 20th century in the most part of the world.

2017年5月30日 · The original painting is apparently depicting the fall of Constantinople in the 4th crusade in 1204 AD. I'm pretty certain that this is what the meme image is using it for (haven't been able to find out in a cursory search what the painting was actually titled or who painted it).

2019年10月14日 · From as far as I can read, I don't think there is any significance to the number of stripes on the East India Company (EIC) flag - as Wikipedia shows, the flag has had different numbers of stripes at times (between 9 and 15).

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2020年4月25日 · One of the books piled up at some of the bookstore chains is titled 'The Knights Templar'. A point made in the book is that between the formation of the Knights and their dissolution there was a cultural shift in Europe toward a more secular outlook.

2020年4月26日 · Quoted from "The Civilization of the Middle Ages" by Norman F. Cantor: "Indeed, Acre never fell to the Moslems. In 1291 the French knights who garrisoned it decided that their homeland had forgotten them and that the siege of many years to which they had been subjected would never be reliev

2017年12月10日 · First, let's remember that a knight is not just an armoured soldier on horseback; he is a knight precisely because of being in receipt of a knight's fee under knight-Service, with military (and/or financial, see scutage) obligations to his lord in exchange for possession of land, a manor, deemed sufficient to support not only the knight and his family, but also his required …

2020年1月12日 · The Reichsfahne (Imperial flag) was a field ensign of the Holy Roman Empire, originally an equestrian flag or gonfalon. An early bearer was Werner I, count of Winterthur, who carried the flag for Conrad II and Henry III and who died in the battle at Brůdek in 1040.