Household |
£ |
s |
d |
Cost of food |
31,595 |
11 |
10 |
Clothes and furs for the king |
104 |
12 |
9 |
Mantles for knights and clerics |
312 |
10 |
0 |
Armour and clothes for knights and clerics |
12,910 |
8 |
11 |
Gifts of robes and silver |
771 |
10 |
0 |
Alms |
1,515 |
3 |
9 |
Crossbowmen and sergeants-at-arms of the household |
4,494 |
6 |
6 |
115 war-horses, pack-horses and mules for the household |
1,916 |
18 |
11 |
TOTAL
household costs of the king and queen |
53,621 |
2 |
8 |
War
and Shipping |
£ |
s |
d |
Payment for knights serving for wages |
57,093 |
17 |
10 |
Gifts and subsidies for knights serving without wages |
23,253 |
18 |
4 |
Mounted crossbowmen and sergeants |
22,242 |
13 |
6 |
Replacements for 264 war-horses |
6,789 |
17 |
0 |
Crossbowmen and sergeants on foot |
29,575 |
0 |
6 |
Carpenters, war-engineers and other labourers |
689 |
12 |
3 |
Common expenditure (incl. £41,366 14s 9d
for labourers in several towns overseas and £967 13s
9d for the ransoming of captives) |
66,793 |
19 |
6 |
Shipping costs |
5,725 |
15 |
0 |
TOTAL
war and shipping costs |
212,164 |
13 |
11 |
 |
Sources
Hallam, E., ed. Chronicles of the Crusades.
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson Ltd., 1989.
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