The article explains why so many in the Christian West answered Pope Urban II's call to arms following the Council of Clermont in 1095. The First Crusade has come to exemplify the religious fervor that enveloped Christendom, the poli...
The first Christian Crusade against the Muslim Moors, led by King Alfonso VI of Castile, managed to capture the Castelo dos Mouros in 1093. The small Christian army was driven out of the castle and the Sintra region the following year. The castle flourished between the first and second Christ...
The First Crusade There were multiple Crusade campaigns throughout the almost 200 year history ofThe Crusades. The most successful was that of theFirst Crusade(1096-1099). Led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Bohemond of Taranto and Hugh of Vermandois; four large Christian arm...
Here is a crumbling wall that was old when Columbus discovered America; was old when Peter the Hermit roused the knightly men of the Middle Ages to arm for the first Crusade; was old when Charlemagne and his paladins beleaguered enchanted castles and battled with giants and genii in the fable...
Nine hundred years ago the Pope initiated one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history by stating that God wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born. Its story is compelling, capable of inspiring ...
The First Crusade {1096 - 1099} The People's, or Peasants', Crusade:By the spring of 1096, before the First Crusade was officially launched, Peter the Hermit and other wandering preachers had collected a number of motley armies, composed of peasants, vagrants, beggars, women, and children....
That October, the Turks annihilated Conrad’s forces at Dorylaeum, the site of a great Christian victory during the First Crusade. After Louis and Conrad managed to assemble their armies at Jerusalem, they decided to attack the Syrian stronghold of Damascus with an army of some 50,000 (the...
This is a movie which contains a scene that has stayed with me for several decades. I doubt if it would play well today - I can't think of any actors who could pull it off. The scene is where the Christian leaders of the Crusade meet Saladin for the first time when Saladin comes ...
By the time the Crusades finally began, Muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of the Christian world.[3] The First Crusade The First Crusade, properly speaking, was lead by Feudal lords, mostly of Frankish origin. Many of the knights left home never expecting to return, knowing virtually ...
"A first-rate piece of scholarship that will have a major impact on the field of crusade studies and medieval history in general. . . . A must for all historians of the Latin East and those interested in relations between the churches."—Jonathan Riley-Smith, author ofThe First Crusade an...