Edmund Timeline and Summary

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• Edmund works for Otto the coin maker until Otto is found guilty of making bad money.
• Edmund flees his master's house but is grabbed and brought to the sheriff, who passes him off to Sir Nigel.
• Edmund is able to convince Sir Nigel to take him on as an extra squire.
• Before they leave for the Holy Land, Edmund tries to run away with some of Nigel's money, but he is brought back.
• Edmund travels through London, France, and Venice to get to the Holy Land.
• In Venice, he gets drunk with Hubert and ends up robbing the Doge's nephew. Nigel's men find him and drag him back to the ship, where he is punished with manual labor.
• Before they reach Acre, Edmund falls ill with fever, but gets better just in time for them to land.
• Before they land he also replaces Miles as Rannulf's squire since Miles is lost during a storm.
• Edmund assists Rannulf in the Siege of Acre and sees war for the first time.
• He avoids participating in the slaughter of the prisoners of war, though he feels ashamed for refusing to obey the king.
• While he is riding with Hubert, Edmund meets a Saracen soldier at a watering hole. He makes conversation and is polite, but afterward has a fallout with Hubert when the latter insists he should have killed the soldier.
• After Acre falls, Edmund follows King Richard's army toward Jerusalem.
• At Arsuf, the Saracens make another attack; Edmund manages to stay safe but loses his horse. After the battle, he and Wenstan have to search for Nigel and Hubert, who are missing.
• Edmund is left with a choice in the end. He can join Nigel and Rannulf when they go home because they are wounded, or he can join another knight and move on to Jerusalem.