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The Crusades
“It is God’s will!”
The Beginning
• 11th-13th centuries
• Euro-Christians out to
regain the Holy Land
known as Jerusalem
The Kingdom of Jerusalem symbol
The Players
• Alexis I asks for European help against the
Seljuk Turks (Muslims).
“The Golden Opportunity”
• Pope Urban II calls upon his religious
warriors at the Council of Clermont to
defeat the “infidels”.
The call to God
• “All who die…whether
by land or by sea, or
in battle against the
pagans, shall have
immediate remission
[forgiveness] of sins.”
Early Crusade
The first groups to go were
made up of French
soldiers, and they reached
Jerusalem in June 1099.
The takeover was quite
brutal and many of the
locals were massacred.
The fight cannot end here
• 1140s-Muslims take
back Jerusalem and
the call in Europe
becomes frantic for
more of God’s
warriors
Bernard of Clairvaux asks the French king Louis VII
and the German emperor Conrad III to assist in the
retaking of Jerusalem
Saladin
• 1187-Jerusalem has
fallen to the Muslim
hands during the
Third Crusade.
Negotiations
• The Third Crusade
was informally known
as the “King’s
Crusade” due to the
prominence of
European royalty
fighting.
Richard I of England
Phillip II of
France
Frederick I, Holy
Roman Emperor
Other Crusades
• Children’s Crusade
1212-A young boy leads
almost 20,000 children
from France & Germany
towards the Holy Land.
The mass number of
children were a result from
so many adults running off
to war, or dying in the
chaos of battle.
A complete waste of time?
• In total, there were 9 crusades into the
Holy Land of Jerusalem.
• By the end of the 13th century, Europe and
its Christians began to seek out what the
real purpose of the fight was for, after their
losses became too great.
• WHAT DO YOU THINK?