June – TheChildren's Crusade: The 12-year-old Stephen of Cloyes leads a group acrossFrance toVendôme.[9] Attracting a following of over 30,000 adults and children.[10] On the orders ofPhilip II, advised by theUniversity of Paris, the people were implored to return home. Philip himself did not appear impressed, especially since his unexpected visitors were led by a mere child, and refused to take them seriously.
Late June – Stephen of Cloyes led his largely juvenile Crusaders fromVendôme toMarseille. They survived by begging for food, while the vast majority seem to have been disheartened by the hardship of this journey and returned to their families. Two French merchants (Hugh the Iron and William of Posqueres) offered to take them by boat to Palestine. They were then taken toTunisia instead of Palestine, where they were sold into slavery by the merchants.[9][11]
^abNicholas, David. (1992).Medieval Flanders. Longman Group UK Limited, London. p. 152.
^Warnkönig, Leopold August (1846). Vandale, A. (ed.).Histoire constitutionnelle et administrative de la ville de Gand et de la chatellenie du Vieux-Bourg: jusqu'à l'année 1305 [Leopold August Warnkönig, Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Ghent and the Chatellenie du Vieux-Bourg: until the year 1305] (in French).
^Lower, Michael (2005).The Barons' Crusade: A Called to Arms and Its Consequences. University of Pennsylvania Press.
^Bubenicek, Michelle (2002).Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle [When women govern: law and politics in the 14th century: Yolande of Flanders, Law and politics in the 14th century] (in French). Ecole des Chartes.
^Andre Du Chesne, Historiographe Du Roy (1639).Histoire Genealogique de La Maison de Béthune, Justifïee par Chartes de Diverses Eglises & Abbayes, Arrests du Parlement, Titres Particuliers, Epitaphes, et Autres Bonnes Preuves. Paris, chez Sebastien Cramoisy, Imprimeur Ordínaire Du Roy, Rue Saint Jacques, aux Cicognes. pp. 149 to 156.
