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Well these knightly brotherhoods were semi to fully autonomus players in medieval politics.

At some points in history you can consider the knightly brotherhoods independant states in their own right.

Teutonic Knights existed all the way until the napoleon era.

Napoleon kicked them out, but you get the idea.

To the point the catholic church was terrified of the Knights Templar because they set up a money moving trading system that for the first time in history proved that another organization could be as rich as the Church.

Dang, what did The church do about them?

Mostly slandered them.

Made up wierd myths about their initiation rituals involving beastiality and stuff.

That's why when you hear about Templars in fiction today, they're mostly evil dudes.

Ha, the usual “evil pagan” dehumanization tactic

Hell the first crusade was a just one.

Other 13 weren't.

My favorite was "lol jk let's attack Constantinople."

But the first one was reclaiming Byzantine territory from cumans.

Then they went and did child crusades.

Child crusades?

First crusade was so poorly organized people were walking to the fucking middle east before they set a start date.

Yup.

And decided to loot the fuck out of everything on their way.

Speaking of medieval comedy in warfare.

I love how Joan of Arc's great military plan in every battle was "Okay we're at a dramatic disadvantage..... let's attack. Fuck 'em up."

And that shit actually worked.

Sometimes teenage girls manage to do things cool lol

I know but it kept working.

War is weird like that, sometimes u get rly lucky

Then you get killed by your own side.

Joan of Arc's story reads like a fucking three stooges act.

That feel when you get executed for crimes of girl #justgirlythings

Well, and for being a so-called heretic but ykno

Psychologists will spend hours debating if she was lying or actually experienced hallucinations.

It's fucking fascinating.

It is fascinating, I wish I had enough knowledge to continue the conversation with you, but I only know the surface level unfortunately

Nice to meet some of you guys, I got to get back to researching the welsh longbow, I shall return some other evening

Later. :3

I want to sleep, but it's too early to go to bed.

Never too early for sleep

It is if I want to sleep through the night. 😛

Overrated

😦

I got weeks of sleep to catch up on son