Mark C. Trebels

The City of Amsterdam, Embracing the Citizens of the World for Trade, Leisure and Liberty. twitter.com/artgate2/statu…

@robhoeij @Jossedevoogd Ja..... Dat meidje heeft hem zelf bij Blaeu gekocht, opgerold, onder haar arm meegenomen en opgehangen om die opschepper met zn protserige muts van Amerikaans Bevervilt uit Nieuw Amsterdam te laten zien dat ze best weet hoe de BV NL haar geld verdient.....

@mctrebels @Jossedevoogd Lijkt erg op de kaart van Blaeu van Holland. Mooie link.

Kaartje doet geen recht aan al het alpengruis waarmee de Nederlandse delta gevuld is.

@Jossedevoogd @robhoeij En nog een keer (N) Holland op zn kant.......... x.com/i/status/19677…

@robhoeij Op z'n kant oogt Nederland anders vind ik. Rechtop gezien vind ik het IJsselmeer meer opvallen, maar op z'n kant valt eerder het rivierenstelsel op, en is het IJsselmeer een wat irrelevante lagune.

@MemoryMedieval @Resypto Archery.......The poor man's poison gass according to the Noble French Knight's at Azincourt preferring man to man battle.......

@Resypto Correct. And they had the most formidable archers in the world.

One of the reasons medieval Europeans were a level beyond any of their rivals (aside from technology) is because the young men began training for the BUSINESS of KILLING PEOPLE from the age of 6-8 years old! You sent your six year old son off to train with a PROFESSIONAL KILLER

@MemoryMedieval Kids be silent....Now listen. When you chop the broadsword this way you are exposed at this site......Harold......don't poke the spear at little Ermengaud....sit still.......😆😆

@klaasm67 Prachtig. Wat zou deze "Indische" Jongen die op Hawai leefde trots zijn geweest op dit tochtige gat in de vaderlandse klei......😂😂

Soldaat van Oranje zat in de ondergrondse. Dan ligt het vernoemen van een tunnel natuurlijk voor de hand. Well played gemeente Wassenaar.☺️

@TerribleMaps Oh I think that guy has a nice comment.......Timeline for the next 24 hours...........x.com/carnaval_bra/s…

I liked one post that was in Brazilian, and now 50% of my feed is posts in Brazilian

@TacovanderValk @Apparatchik_1 @dmdebruijn Hoe het van adder naar schelm en schalks etc is gegaan is me een raadsel......wellicht moet ik dan op X vaker "addergebroed" gebruiken.... Bring back snaakse uitdrukkingen....

@mctrebels @Apparatchik_1 @dmdebruijn Neem mij voor om het woord snaaks vaker te gebruiken. Nu grappig, maar etymologisch van snake/slang geloof ik.

Audrey Hepburn's mother was a Dutch Baroness, so she spoke fluent Dutch. She did this so perfectly that you rarely hear this accent these days with the exception of some nobility.

@nonregemesse My ancestor wrote an eyewitness account.....👇👇 x.com/i/status/20271…

• The First Crusade • > Turks overran Anatolia and captured Nicea. The east Roman emperor had just faced down a coup and requested help to recapture lost lands. > Pope Urban II calls for Christian warriors to ‘carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile people from the lands of our friends.’ > Contingents of lords and knights from France and Southern Italy journey east, as well as a less organised people’s crusade. > The ‘People’s Crusade’ rampages through Europe and is condemned by all. Upon setting foot in Anatolia it hastily attacks the Turks and is destroyed. > The main crusade reaches Constantinople in 1096 and most leaders swear to return former any lands of the empire that are retaken. > The crusade reaches Nicea and the emperor Alexios uses the threat of attack to force the city to surrender in 1097. > His armies attack the Turks in western Anatolia while the main crusade host heads east. > The crusaders defeat a Turkic army at Dorylaeum thanks to Bohemond of Taranto holding together to vanguard of the army. > The crusade captures land through Anatolia and returns it to the empire while being supplied by the emperor. > A gruelling siege of Antioch takes place and the city is eventually taken in 1098 after Bohemond bribes the occupants of a guard tower to help them in. > A Muslim relief army en route to Antioch is defeated but not before Stephen of Blois leaves the crusade and reaches the emperor Alexios in Philomelion to tell him all is lost and to abandon the crusaders. > Alexios’ failure to help and Bohemond keeping Antioch causes much tension. > The crusade minus Bohemond in Antioch and Baldwin in Edessa march on Jerusalem which is captured and brutally sacked in 1099. > A Fatimid relief army is defeated at Ascalon. > Godfrey of Bouillon becomes the first ruler of Jerusalem but dies in 1100. Baldwin of Edessa becomes the first King of Jerusalem. > The emperor Alexios helps the crusaders capture Tripoli. > A fresh wave of new crusaders and those who abandoned the first crusade arrive in 1101 but are promptly defeated. Stephen of Blois dies in battle. > The newly created Kingdom of Jerusalem survives in the Levant for 192 years.

@MedMilMedicine Bwahahaha....."Robert's mother only let him carry a dagger to school and not his grandfather's broadsword......."

Sadly for Robert, his mother wouldn’t let him wear real mail to school like the cool kids, insisting that this knitted replica would look just as good - 12th century, Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108, f. 85r

@MemoryMedieval One of my ancestors wrote letters to his family to pray for them just before he died because the First Crusade stalled after Antioch through politicking and he pushed on.........history.hanover.edu/texts/1stcrusa…

It's also worth mentioning, a handful of primary sources on the crusades. On the first crusade, the Gesta Francorum is generally regarded as the best single-source crusader narrative. It seems likely that it was popularized by Bohemond himself when he returned to France in 1105, bringing the Gesta with him, and appears to have been written by a southern Italian Norman on crusade with Bohemond. If you'd like some alternate views of the First Crusade, you can also check out the Gesta Tancredi and the Alexiad. The Alexiad doesn't focus on the crusades but on Alexios, and has passages with his interactions with crusaders. The Gesta Tancredi is not an eyewitness account like the Gesta Francorum but written after Tancred's death by Ralph of Caen, ostensibly from the retellings of eyewitness accounts. For the Third Crusade, you can get a spirited eyewitness account from Ambroise's History of the Holy War, or from Saladin's perspective in the Rare and Excellent History of Saladin by Baha Ed-Din. This particular text on Saladin covers his life more widely, so the crusade is only part of the tale. Ambroise's chronicle features his perspective on the entire crusade, as a follower in Richard's camp. Lastly, Villehardouin's chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and Joineville's Life of Saint Louis (Seventh Crusade). Combined into a dual, cheap volume, this is a great pickup to get an eyewitness look into later crusades.

@boudewijnsteur Oh mensen. Lees toch zijn verhaal waarbij heldendom en totale gekte wellicht de 2 kanten van dezelfde medaille zijn. We hebben veel meer van dit soort gekken nodig op dit moment......nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_v…

Op deze dag in 1627 overleed de Hollandse ontdekkingsreiziger Olivier van Noort. In 1598 vertrok hij met 4 schepen voor - wat later bleek - een reis om de wereld. De reis duurde 3 jaar met veel ontberingen: 3 schepen gingen verloren, 35 van de 250 bemanningsleden overleefden het

@robbertleusink He gave my widowed "voormoeder" a piece of land to work it and develop a Wine Estate "Altydgedacht" at Tygerbergen. It was Napoleons secretary Emmanuel de Las Casas who was forced by the British to stay at "Altydgedacht" before returning to Europe and send his friend the SA Wine.

VOC Governor Simon van der Stel founded Constantia wine estate at Cape of Good Hope in 1685 While Jan van Riebeeck made the first Cape wine in 1659 to prevent scurvy. Sweet Muscat soon became Europe's most prestigious wine Napoleon had it shipped to St. Helena exile Dutch colonial excellence

@klaasm67 Doet me denken aan een Studiekameraad in Groningen die een (veelgedragen) bontjas kocht op Koninginnedag. Ze begonnen bij een 10tje te onderhandelen en eindigden bij 25 gulden......😂😂

Ondertussen in Den Haag: Caissière: “5 lp’s. Dat is dan 5 euro.” Ik: “Maar de aanbieding is 10 lp’s voor 4 euro.” Caissière: “Klopt, maar u heeft er niet 10, maar 5.” 🤔

@klaasm67 Prachtig dit! Ik heb er 2 in de familie. 1 via Zweden en over de ander moest de Regering plus Wilhelmina beslissen of hij vanuit Portugal door mocht naar Indie ivm de verklaring die alle andere Officieren aan Kristiansen hadden gegeven..... Behalve hij en 42 andere KNIL helden.

The last Dutch Engelandvaarder turns out to still be alive: Diederik van Overbeek is 102 and lives in Michigan. In 1943, at the age of 16, he fled via Spain to England to fight the Nazis. His story has now resurfaced. nos.nl/artikel/260077…

@TacovanderValk @JackChambersGB

@JackChambersGB @mctrebels Former home of my grandparents. Now a bank.

Old Governor's house in Medan, Dutch Indonesia

@nickfshort I know what you mean. These care free Dutch-Indies girls photographed at my grandmothers birthday would see the demise of 3 Empires through the severest of clashes and their subsequent migration/repatriation to Europe, Australia, or the USA..... x.com/i/status/16483…

High school boys in #Russia in the early 1900s when Nicholas II was still on the throne. A carefree image of youth. I look at such photographs and wonder how these boys' futures unfolded. In a few years their country descended into an abyss of war and revolution. #History

@robhoeij x.com/i/status/18468…

Sahul. Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea en Australië waren ooit fysiek met elkaar verbonden. Mensen liepen over dat land. De voorouders van Aboriginal Australiërs en Papoea’s woonden op hetzelfde continent voordat de stijgende zeeën de kaart veranderde.

@WillemdePrater En hier de Stadspoort linksonder, waarvan op de prent een toren te zien is vanuit een andere hoek, vanaf de Leidschestraat.

Amsterdam 1813. Dit fraaie stadsgezicht is geschilderd vanuit de schouwburg op het Leidseplein. Het is goed te zien hoe de Singelgracht de grens vormt met het platteland. Ongeveer op de plek van de linker molen is nu het wereldberoemde Rijksmuseum te vinden.