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@Sighlass Don't suppose you ever READ my historical fiction, did you?Where the heck do you Think I got it from?I'm the one here with the early medieval history fix.My info comes from My own bookshelves. Histories of Vikings, Richard the Lionheart, The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Jesus Christ, The Crusades, etc.Got plenty of them, much better researched than Wiki.But since I'm not writing for a PhD here, I'm not going back through them all page by page line by line to print You an annotation that You won't consult anyway.Tell me what you know about Papal Interdict from the period. OK?How about the penalty for Templars caught Horse Racing?That one I know chapter and verse from:https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Warhorse-Byzantium-Crusades-Military/dp/0938289845/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044077&sr=1-1&keywords=Medieval+War+HorseBecause I only own this one book covering the subject and I wrote it into a scene for Vol 4 of my Viking Hunter Series that I'm still moving characters and plots around in.If you really want to take a swing at me try reading Sir Steven Runciman's 3 Vol History of the Crusades:https://www.amazon.com/History-Crusades-Vol-Foundations-Jerusalem/dp/052134770X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044309&sr=1-3&keywords=Steven+Runciman+A+History+of+The+Crusadeshttps://www.amazon.com/History-Crusades-Jerusalem-Frankish-1100-1187/dp/0521347718/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044309&sr=1-7&keywords=Steven+Runciman+A+History+of+The+Crusadeshttps://www.amazon.com/History-Crusades-Vol-III-Kingdom/dp/0521347726/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044309&sr=1-9&keywords=Steven+Runciman+A+History+of+The+CrusadesOr The Dream and The Tomb by Robert Paynehttps://www.amazon.com/Dream-Tomb-History-Crusades/dp/0815410867/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044444&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Dream+and+The+TombThe Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusadeshttps://www.amazon.com/Templars-Dramatic-Powerful-Military-Crusades-ebook/dp/B00KF2XX8E/ref=sr_1_61?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044616&sr=1-61&keywords=TemplarsWarriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston Jr. (2001-05-15) Hardcover – 1800https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-God-Richard-Lionheart-2001-05-15/dp/B017V8A20G/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541044974&sr=1-2&keywords=Richard+and+Saladin+James+RestonThat's just a few on mine.Reston's a fair introduction but he went sensationalist in claiming Richard and his Cousin Phillip of France had been gay bunk mates in youth. The theory never even surfaced till 1948. And Reston, writing from the same sources everyone else had used for near 800 years took off with it.Where it came from was monks. Richard loved verbally abusing them. So a few tried to get back at him, while copying his history.Point being you're not gonna find everything online, and I'm not going digging for it from books you don't own, and won't buy to then put your Rose Colored Disney version of Christianity glasses back on, and just Ignore me in answer.