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97: 22: 359: 172: 143:. When news of this reached France the next year, both nobles and peasants were deeply distressed; the king was well-loved and it was inconceivable to them that such a pious man could be defeated by heathens. Louis sent his brothers to France to get relief, where despite the efforts of Blanche of Castile, it was seen that neither the nobility nor the clergy were helping the king. 473:
The crusade seems to have been more of a revolt against the French church and nobility, who were thought to have abandoned Louis; the shepherds, of course, had no idea of what happened to Louis, nor the logistics involved in undertaking a crusade to rescue him. After being dispersed, some of the
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in several cities, and later began to attack the Jewish population. They never went beyond northern France as a large group, and were eventually dispersed by order of Blanche.
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in which she told him to raise a peasant army to rescue King Louis. From about Easter 1251, a group of perhaps as many as 60,000 followed him, causing disruption, especially
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One of the outpourings of support took the form of a peasant movement in northern France, led by a man known as "the Master of Hungary" (
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to rescue Louis. His followers, said to number 60,000, were mostly young peasants, men, women, and children, from
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on June 11. Here they were denounced by the bishop, whom they also attacked, along with other clerics, including
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from earlier in the century. Their movement in the city was restricted; they were not allowed to cross to the
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students in the city as well, as Blanche might have feared would happen in Paris. Moving on to
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Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the western society for French history, 1982
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was located, as Blanche perhaps feared another disturbance on the scale of the
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thought he was an impostor, and that he was actually one of the leaders of the
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The crowd of shepherds split up after leaving the city. Some of them went to
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monk living in northern France, claimed he saw a vision of the
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Blanche responded by ordering the crowds to be rounded up and
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Malcolm Barber, "The crusades of the shepherds in 1251",
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Plaque commemorating the Shepherds' Crusade in Orléans
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The Seventh Crusade, 1244–1254. Sources and Documents
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