History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

Many interesting comments. It's disturbing that some are so unstudied in this matter. "Official" histories often omit these facts. I have lost the files I had in Russian language about a group of a few dozen Polish (Ukrainian also if you count Galicia) knights who joined on the first crusade. It was not hearsay, it referred to old Russian-language documents. My ancestor William de Roffe MAY have been the de Rossal, the ninth knight, and MAY have quarreled with Godfrey de Bouillon, on the first crusade. All I know is that within a century, his clan leadership of Ross in Scotland had been destroyed, and his lodge razed (now it is Boleskin House on the shores of Loch Ness), and Godfrey de Roffe was beheaded in 1212 after a long fast in prison after he tried to lead the Ross and Moray rebellions against the Stewarts. William Ross/Roffe/Ros then moved to Lublin Poland and started the Scots Brotherhood of Lublin. MAYBE it was because of the First Crusades experience of his grandfather? All of this can be verified in old books, but I do not still have all of them. I can find everything about all of this on the internet EXCEPT the list of Polish/Galician knights. Maybe Putin's goons stopped the Russian-language website that my friends in Ukraine told me about? Randall Roffe