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The Crusades
The First Crusade – Overview
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Palestine came under rule of
Timeline
Muslims in 7th Century
AD 1095 Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade
Overrun by Turks in 11th
1099
Jerusalem Captured
century
1147
Second Crusade
1187
Saladin recaptures Jerusalem
Less willing to coexist with
1189-99 Reign of Richard I
Christians
1190-92 Third Crusade
1193-94 Richard imprisoned by the German Emperor
Coincided with imperial
1204
Fourth ‘Crusade’ – Constantinople (Byzantium) ransacked
ambitions of Papacy especially
1212
The Children’s Crusade
Pope Gregory
1229-44 Jerusalem recovered by Frederick II
1248; 70 The Crusades of Louis IX of France
Alexius of Byzantium appealed
1291
Acre falls to the Saracens
for help to new Pope, Urban II,
in 1095
Church Council in Nov. 1095 urging nobles and knights to free the Holy Land from the
Saracens.
Speech created a wave of ‘pilgrimages’
Including the ‘People’s Crusade’ led by Peter the Hermit, defeated in 1096
Real crusade with leaders such as Gregory of Bouillon, Raymond of Toulouse, Tancred from
Germany
A violent horde of knights determined to free the Holy Land
Did not care who they attacked including Jews (in Germany), Christians, and Muslims
Alexius not happy when this huge horde arrived.
They threatened Byzantium, captured Edessa (Ur) by a ruse, engaged in cannibalism,
massacred the inhabitants of Antioch, and violently slaughtered the Muslims in Jerusalem
Jerusalem captured in 1099.
‘Entering the city, our pilgrims pursued and killed Saracens up to the temple of Solomon .... so
that their blood flowed throughout the temple. Finally ... our knights seized a great number
of men and women, and killed whom they wished .... Soon the crusaders ran throughout the
city, seizing gold, silver, horses, mules and houses full of all kinds of goods. Then rejoicing and
weeping from extreme joy, our men went to worship ... our Saviour Jesus.’ 11th Century
Chronicle.