Financing the Crusades - saving, selling and plundering

Crusading was not a cheap thing. How did the individual crusader finance his journey?

The life of Hugues Count of Champagne summarized

Born around 1074, Hugues was the third son of Thibaud I and Adèle of Valois. In 1089, his half-brother Etienne-Henri succeeded Thibaud I as the head of the Counties of Blois and Meaux. Four years later, on 1 January 1093, Hugues inherited his other brother's Eudes IV Counties of Troyes, Vitry and Bar-sur-Aube. Hugues in 1102 was the first to officially take the title of Count of Champagne. He also was the first to settle in Troyes. Hugues was to play an important role in Templar history.

"The Order of the Temple included women"

"The Order of the Temple included women. Within the first years of its existence many women took the Order’s oath, although they remained members of the lay persons’ Temple.