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1. Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship: (fash-e@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 02:49:40 JST Fash-E :windmill_of_friendship:
   For the 19th Day of White History Month we celebrate two of the greatest and most anti-semitic monarchs in Medieval Europe, Pogrom Kings Saint Louis IX of France and Edward I of England! Both Kings were fearless warriors, effective rulers, leaders of Crusades and expelled the jews from their respective Kingdoms.
   
   King Louis IX was born in 1214 and crowned in 1226. During his 44 year reign he was the wealthiest and most powerful monarch in Europe. The 13th century in France was referred to as the golden century of Saint Louis. France was the center of medieval culture. He built the Sainte-Chapelle to house a fragment of the true cross as well as the Crown of Thorns. In 1239, Louis had bought the Crown for 135,000 livres from the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II. The Latin Empire had taken over the city and its surrounding area after the Sack of Constantinople by Crusaders in 1204.
   
   In 1230, King Louis outlawed usury by banishing all jews who practiced it and confiscated the wealth it derived. In 1240, he became the first Monarch of Europe to receive a translation of the Talmud. He and his religious scholars were not pleased by the anti-Christian sentiments it expressed. They ordered the leaders of the jewish community to court where the held a trial for the Talmud known as the Disputation of Paris. The worst lines of the Talmud were read aloud for the court. The jewish leaders were demanded to explain each one. The trial led to the King ordering every copy of the Talmud be burned in 1242. Destroying over 12,000 Talmuds and other jewish texts.
   
   That same year King Louis became mortally ill. From 1242 to 1244 it appeared he would die of his sickness which left him bed ridden. In his dying state he payed to God, promising to take the cross if he should get better. Miraculously, his illness disappeared. In 1248, he kept his promise by leading the Seventh Crusade into Egypt. They landed at the port of Damietta and succeeded where the last 2 crusades had failed by taking control of the city. They marched down the Nile for Cairo but the intense heat caused severe attrition. King Louis' depleted army was destroyed at the Battle of Fariskur 1250. The King was ransomed for 400,000 livres and the return of Damietta. He returned to France in 1254, after reinforcing Christian defenses across the Holy Land. In 1259 the Greek prince exiled in Anatolia won a major battle against the Latin Empire, retaking Constantinople by 1261, known as the Palaiologos Restoration. King Louis launched his next Crusade in 1267. With him, his 3 sons, his younger brother, and the prince of England, Lord Edward. After landing in Tunis, their camp was struck with disease and King Louis died while on Crusade. He was proclaimed a Saint by the Pope in 1297, for being a model Christian Monarch.