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The Crusades
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• Crusade 1,2,3 Main crusades. Actually
a total of 8.
• A fight between Muslims and
Christians
Crusade 1 1095-1099
• Byzantine emperor Alexius 1 asked for help
against the invading Muslim Turks.
• Pope Urban the 2 called upon all Christians to
aid.
• Godfrey of Bouillon (1060–1100), Baldwin of
Flanders, Raymond of Toulouse, Robert of
Normandy, Bohemond of Taranto, marched
south through Anatolia.
• Mostly French and Norman
• Arrived in Jerusalem in July
• They killed and destroyed all
Crusade 11(1147-1149)
• Muslims took back Edessa
• Bishop in France Bernard of Clairvaux & Pope
Eugene 3 pushed for the second crusade to rid
the heathens/infidels from the holy land.
• French and German armies banded together.
• Could not be successful in the Holy Land, but
was successful in Portugal and Spain.
Reconquista
Jerusalem Falls
• Christians lost foothold in Holy Land
• Saladin ruler of Egypt took Jerusalem in 1187
Crusade 111 1189-1192
(The Kings Crusade)
• Was an attempt to get back
land from Saladin.
• Very successful, but unable to
reconquer Jerusalem.
• France, Germany-Holy Roman
Emperor Frederick Barbarossa
(he drowns), England banded
together.
• Made treaty with Saladin that
allowed pilgrims and
merchants
• Richard ransomed 150,00
marks in 1194 died 1199
The Third Crusade 1189-1192
The Last 6 Crusades
• Lasted 60 years
• Lost all lands back to the
Muslims
• Created the strongest
divide between Catholics
and Orthodox Christians
• With the fall of Antioch
(1268), Tripoli (1289), and
Acre (1291), those
Christians unable to leave
the cities were massacred
or enslaved and the last
traces of Christian rule
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