{"id":15052,"date":"2016-05-06T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15052"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T16:45:37","slug":"middle-ages-history-the-battle-of-bouvines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/06\/middle-ages-history-the-battle-of-bouvines\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Ages History: The Battle of Bouvines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15053\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/battle-of-bb.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"Battle of BB\" width=\"620\" height=\"305\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">Although\u00a0not as famous as Hastings, Cr\u00e9cy or Agincourt, the\u00a01214 Battle of\u00a0Bouvines would have far-reaching consequences. In fact, the little-known clash\u00a0indirectly contributed to the rise of modern-day constitutional democracy.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A fighting bishop unhorses and captures a royal bastard in an obscure medieval battle and in one swift blow changes European history for centuries. The event leads to the downfall of an emperor and a king and brings new justice to the whole world.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN THE CRUSADER<\/strong>\u00a0clergyman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_of_Dreux\">Philip of Dreux<\/a>\u00a0went to war for his king in 1214, he expected merely to kill a few Englishmen. Instead, the ringing blows he struck with his heavy mace on the helmet of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Longesp%C3%A9e,_3rd_Earl_of_Salisbury\">William Longsword, the Third Earl of Salisbury<\/a>\u00a0echoed down through the centuries. They still resonate today.<\/p>\n<p>The obscure yet momentous event occurred at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Bouvines\">Battle of\u00a0Bouvines<\/a>.\u00a0The stunned English earl crumpled to the ground under Philip\u2019s wallops and was swiftly\u00a0captured. Demoralized at the sight of their felled lord, the English soldiers fled, leaving their entire army\u2019s right flank exposed and and tipping the battle in\u00a0France\u2019s favour.\u00a0The resulting rout\u00a0set off a chain of events that would change European and ultimately world history.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2016\/05\/06\/bishop-takes-knight-how-the-game-changing-battle-of-bouvines-altered-world-history\/\"><strong>Military History Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although\u00a0not as famous as Hastings, Cr\u00e9cy or Agincourt, the\u00a01214 Battle of\u00a0Bouvines would have far-reaching consequences. In fact, the little-known clash\u00a0indirectly contributed to the rise of modern-day constitutional democracy. A fighting bishop unhorses and captures a royal bastard in an obscure medieval battle and in one swift blow changes European history for centuries. The event leads&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3647,5525,475,10066,1286],"tags":[11526,11527,11528,11529,3823],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}