The ''Salles des Croisades'' ("Hall of Crusades") is a set of rooms located in the north wing of the

Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 19 ...

. The rooms were created in the mid-19th century by king

Louis-Philippe Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate List of French monarchs#House of Orléans, July Monarchy (1830–1848), monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, h ...

for his museum of French history, and opened in 1843, at a time when

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was seized with enthusiasm with its historical past, and especially the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...

period.''The crusades, Christianity, and Islam'' by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith p.54
/ref> The rooms are filled with over 120 paintings related to the Crusades. King

included the names of the thousands of family whose ancestors went to the Crusades, encouraging many forgeries at that time.''The Crusades: the essential readings'' by Thomas F. Madden p.131
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First room paintings

Second room paintings

Third room paintings

Fourth room paintings

Fifth room paintings

Gallery

File:Jacques de Molay Grand Maitre de l Ordre du Temple prend Jerusalem 1299.jpg, ''

Jacques de Molay Jacques de Molay (; c. 1240–1250 – 11 or 18 March 1314), also spelled "Molai",Demurger, pp. 1-4. "So no conclusive decision can be reached, and we must stay in the realm of approximations, confining ourselves to placing Molay's date of birth ...

, Grand Maître de l'Ordre du Temple, prend Jerusalem (1299)'' by

Claudius Jacquand Claude Jacquand, known as Claudius (; 11 December 1803, Lyon – 2 April 1878, Paris) was a French painter of historical tableaus, genre scenes and religious subjects. Biography He came from a family devoted to handicrafts and his father was a ...

File:Levee du Siege de Malte by Charles Philippe Lariviere 1798 1876.jpg, '' Levée du Siège de Malte'' by

Charles-Philippe Larivière Charles-Philippe Larivière (28 September 1798 in Paris – 29 February 1876 in Paris) was a French academic painter and lithographer. Biography A talented student of Paulin Guérin, Girodet-Trioson and Antoine-Jean Gros, he was admitted to ...

File:Goyet-Foulques de Villaret.jpg, ''

Foulques de Villaret Foulques de Villaret ( Occitan: Folco del Vilaret, Catalan: Folc del Vilaret; died 1 September 1327), a native of Languedoc-Roussillon, France, was the 25th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, succeeding his paternal uncle Guillaume de Vill ...

, grand maître des hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem de 1307 à 1327'', c. 1841, by

Eugène Goyet Eugène Goyet (February 7, 1798—May 7, 1857), was a French artist. Beginning in 1827 his work was regularly selected for exhibition in the annual Paris Salon. He achieved his greatest success as a painter of religious subjects, with his paintings ...

References

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