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And some good sources about the subject will be much appreciated, thanks.

Or did both factions fight for Tripoli? I'm only just finding out the Mongols took over Jerusalem, I thought they'd died out with Genghis Khan!

I recently was able to trade a few other coins for this gold florin I found at a local ancient artifacts shop. With hours of research, here is what I’ve been able to confirm to the best of my ability: Mintmaster - Niccolo Serristori, confirmed via the family’s crest next to St. John the Baptist on the reverse. Fun fact: this was the Serristori family crest prior to the 1515 family crest change authorized by Pope Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici) to add three papal lilies. Date struck: first semester of 1462.

The Serristori family were very important and very wealthy in renaissance Florence, working as merchant bankers, wool and silk traders, and creating global commercial networks all while supporting and growing beside the most powerful family of all, the Medici’s (hence why a future Medici, Pope Leo X, allowed the papal lilies to be added to the Serristori family crest). Their rise to power and fortune was incredibly quick for the time; the original patriarch moved to Florence from a nearby town in 1384, and in 78 years his great grandson Niccolo Serristori was already appointed as Florence’s mintmaster. The mintmaster (Signori della Zecca) in Florence was viewed as an incredibly important position of office; the entire reputation of the gold florin, the international standard form of commerce, was placed on the mintmaster’s shoulders. The Serristori family still to this day has multiple roads and a palace named after them in Florence! They even eventually married into the Machiavelli family and inherited the famous Niccolò Machiavelli’s estate!

The gold Florin was the international standard of commerce (kind of like the US dollar today) from 1252 until about 1500, which means that it’s very likely that nearly every major international monetary deal (loans to kings, international sales and purchases, etc) made during that time was with these coins!

This is a project I have been working on for a few months, purely out of interest on the period and my good knowledge of the Israeli landscape. The borders are supposed to depict peak extent around c. 1165 including contested areas.

There is also a small glossary with rulers, internal conflicts, the military and religious orders, and first-hand accounts by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim travelers who described the kingdom during its existence.

I will put the link in the comment and would love your feedback and especially suggestions for sites I've under-covered- particularly in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.

A bunch of shots from one of our most beloved club gatherings - Beltaine. We celebrate it every year!

Black Raven is a soulslike hack and slash RPG set in a fictional slavic mythological world. Just recently launched on Kickstarter

There is a row of English kings

I’m making a small medieval survival roguelike set around 1407 Liège (pre Battle of Othee), so I’ve been digging into late-medieval legal oddities in the area.

I expected inheritance disputes, fake relic sellers, tavern violence, guild quarrels, and neighbors fighting over land. But the animal trial records are somehow stranger and more bureaucratic than anything I would have invented.

In 1408, a pig at Pont-de-l’Arche was kept in royal prison after being accused of killing a child. The jailer charged for feeding it at 2 deniers per day until it was hanged. He did get paid, and the receipt is still around to prove it. There was also a rope charge after the pig apparently escaped the prison.

In 1403, a sow accused of devouring a child generated an execution expense report: jail costs, cart costs, rope costs, gloves, and payment for the executioner to come from Paris.

In 1457, a sow and six piglets were tried at Savigny. The sow was condemned, but the bloodstained piglets were not immediately punished because the court said it was not clearly proven they had participated.

The weirdest part is not just “animals were punished.” It’s the procedure: prison fees, witnesses, execution costs, rope invoices, and legal doubt over whether piglets had enough evidence against them.

Does anyone know other real medieval court records or customs that sound fake but actually happened?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a LEGO Ideas project inspired by the medieval Wolfpack faction, reimagined in a classic Castle-style world.

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If you like it, it would be great if you could support it on LEGO Ideas 🙂

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It's a strange question, but I genuinely found it interesting