Medieval battles

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Watercolour painting of the Battle of Agincourt

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Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold

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Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

The Battle on the Ice, fought between the men of Novgorod and the Teutonic Knights, was a landmark in European history, says Dominic Sandbrook. (Alamy)

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A big day in history: The day Pope Urban II exhorted Christians to go on crusade

Richard I (also known as Richard the Lionheart) frequently dated documents with the 'regnal year'. An example of this might be

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A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

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A scene from the Chronique de St Denis depicting the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France, 1137. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

An A to Z of the Plantagenets

A Saracen attack on Crusaders, from the French manuscript 'Chroniques de Saint Denis', c1200. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Traders and crusaders

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The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The Library Bosworth: did gunpowder win the day?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

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