Going on a Medieval Crusade was a male mission, a military enterprise in which only men could fight. Obviously, the women stayed home and did womanly things while their dashing, knightly husbands rode off and defended the Holy Land. Right? Wrong. Actually, many women also took up the cross and went off on Crusade, and they weren’t just the important warrior noble women, like Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Described as being “essential yet despised”, there were also the servants who looked after the animals and accompanied the army, the washerwomen, the campfollowing prostitutes, and not forgetting the licepickers as well. Welcome to Medieval Madness.

00:00 Introduction
00:55 An Insufferable Necessity
04:21 Margaret of Beverley
07:00 The Unknown Nun
07:40 Warrior Women
08:18 Eleanor of Aquitaine
09:34 Margaret of Provence
10:24 Countess Ida of Hainaut

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Producitons

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