Name: WHI.12b – The Crusades WHI.12b in a Nutshell
... Jerusalem, called the Holy Land. First Crusade Began in 1095, when Pope Urban makes a speech calling for a crusade to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. The Christians won and established crusader-states throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Second Crusade Muslim crusaders led by Saladin launch a cou ...
... Jerusalem, called the Holy Land. First Crusade Began in 1095, when Pope Urban makes a speech calling for a crusade to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. The Christians won and established crusader-states throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Second Crusade Muslim crusaders led by Saladin launch a cou ...
The Fourth Crusade - 1202 - 1261 The real author of the Fourth
... enthusiastic, and ambitious for the glory of the Papacy, he revived the plans of Pope Urban II and sought once more to unite the forces of Christendom against Islam. No emperor or king answered his summons, but a number of knights (chiefly French) took the crusader's vow. None of the Crusades, after ...
... enthusiastic, and ambitious for the glory of the Papacy, he revived the plans of Pope Urban II and sought once more to unite the forces of Christendom against Islam. No emperor or king answered his summons, but a number of knights (chiefly French) took the crusader's vow. None of the Crusades, after ...
The Crusades
... to the Byzantine Empire. The emperor of Constantinople, Alexius I (1081–1118), sent envoys to Rome asking Pope Urban II to send help. The response was immediate and overwhelming. Thousands of devoted Christians joined the First Crusade. Pope Urban encouraged the crusade because he hoped it would hel ...
... to the Byzantine Empire. The emperor of Constantinople, Alexius I (1081–1118), sent envoys to Rome asking Pope Urban II to send help. The response was immediate and overwhelming. Thousands of devoted Christians joined the First Crusade. Pope Urban encouraged the crusade because he hoped it would hel ...
The Fourth Crusade (1000)
... The real author of the Fourth Crusade was the famous pope, Innocent III. Young, enthusiastic, and ambitious for the glory of the Papacy, he revived the plans of Pope Urban II and sought once more to unite the forces of Christendom against Islam. No emperor or king answered his summons, but a number ...
... The real author of the Fourth Crusade was the famous pope, Innocent III. Young, enthusiastic, and ambitious for the glory of the Papacy, he revived the plans of Pope Urban II and sought once more to unite the forces of Christendom against Islam. No emperor or king answered his summons, but a number ...
Fourth Crusade
The Fourth Crusade (1202–04) was a Western European armed expedition originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. However, in January 1203, en route to Jerusalem, the majority of the crusader leadership entered into an agreement with the Byzantine prince Alexios Angelos to divert to Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and restore his deposed father as emperor. The intention of the crusaders was to then continue to the Holy Land with promised Byzantine financial and military assistance. On 23 June 1203 the main crusader fleet reached Constantinople. Smaller contingents continued to Acre.In August 1203, following clashes outside Constantinople, Alexios Angelos was crowned as co-Emperor (Alexios IV Angelos) with crusader support. However, in January 1204, he was deposed by a popular uprising in Constantinople. The Western crusaders were no longer able to receive their promised payments, and when Alexios IV was murdered on 8 February 1204, the crusaders and Venetians decided on the outright conquest of Constantinople. In April 1204, they captured and brutally sacked the city, and set up a new Latin Empire as well as partitioning other Byzantine territories between themselves.Byzantine resistance based on unconquered sections of the empire such as Nicaea, Trebizond, and Epirus ultimately recovered Constantinople.The Fourth Crusade is considered to be one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, and a key turning point in the decline of the Byzantine Empire.