The 1906 caption reads: “MAHOMETANS OF JERUSALEM URGE SAINT LOUIS TO BECOME THEIR KING.—After his release from captivity in Egypt, Louis went to Jerusalem, pledged not to fight against the Mahometans for several years. So deeply, according to legend, did his personal grandeur impress even his enemies, that the Saracens followed him with alternate prayers and menaces, begging him to abandon Christianity and become their king.” Mohammedan is a term for a follower of Muhammad, the Islamic prophet. Louis IX, commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, an
The 1906 caption reads: “MAHOMETANS OF JERUSALEM URGE SAINT LOUIS TO BECOME THEIR KING.—After his release from captivity in Egypt, Louis went to Jerusalem, pledged not to fight against the Mahometans for several years. So deeply, according to legend, did his personal grandeur impress even his enemies, that the Saracens followed him with alternate prayers and menaces, begging him to abandon Christianity and become their king.” Mohammedan is a term for a follower of Muhammad, the Islamic prophet. Louis IX, commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the death of his father Louis VIII.
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