that ancestor was no exemplar -
raised at Cornwall’s vision of the mount
he took the Cross and became a Templar
but holding his vows of little account
he returned home with a Saracen girl:
protecting King Edward at Acre
he followed Beauceant the flag unfurled
at Nazareth to wreak massacre
on its inhabitants - black white and red
the Palestinian carpenter
and his family once again dead
Christ mistaken for no gardener
by Crusader State out on chevauchee -
that couple finding World’s End at Mount’s Bay
Oxford
12 May 2018
Sir Perys de Tremayne ( c.1240-86) of Marazion, Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, was the ancestor of my wife Jacqueline and of our children. He was educated at Mont St Michel, Normandy and St Michael’s Mount, at Mount’s Bay, Cornwall.
He joined the Knights Templar and served in the Ninth Crusade, alongside Edward I, who became King of England while recuperating on Sicily. Templars protected Edward from the Nizari Ismaili ” Assassins”, and participated in the culminating act on the Christian side, the destruction of Nazareth and the razing of Galilee. The Beauceant was the Templar flag -its colours black white and red.
The legend is that Peter/Perys de Tremayne returned to Cornwall with an Arab girl named ” Salamanda” ( sic). Might she have been a slave ? His marriage is also recorded to a Nichola de Reskymer. The legend however is too interesting not to use. Regardless of his partner, he was released from Templar vows to marry. English knights returned in 1274 with Edward I. His first son was born in 1275. I wonder if he had been a Templar sergeant.
References to Milton’s ” Lycidas” l.161 and to John’s Gospel 20.15 ought to be apparent.