This Year: 1302: The Estates General and the End of the Crusades

Hello and Welcome to This Year, a YouTube and Blog series with interesting information about each year between 1300 and 2020.

1302 

This year, in 1302,

The Mamluks besieged and took Ruad from European crusaders, taking the last foothold of territory possessed by Europe in the Near East, effectively ending the Crusades.

The Estates-General in France was created and met for the first time.

This has been This Year: 1302.

Credits:
Benoist, Michael, "Cours de la forteresse d'Arouad,"  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cours_de_la_forteresse_d%27Arouad.jpg

Bèzard, Jean-Louis, "The Estates-General in Tours, May 14, 1506,"  http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media//07/126107-050-C78E2973.jpg

Lessing, Karl Friedrich "The Return of the Crusader,"  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Crusader.jpg

Notre Dame Cathedral interior
 https://mywowo.net/en/france/paris/notre-dame/interior

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant  "Universi qui te expectant,"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg