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Albigensian Crusade, Crusade (1209–29) called by Pope Innocent III against the Cathari, a dualist religious movement in southern France that the Roman Catholic Church had branded heretical. The war pitted the nobility of staunchly Catholic northern France against that of the south, where the Cathari were tolerated and even enjoyed the support ...
The crusade was preached throughout the kingdom and it was planned that Philip VI would set out for the East in August 1336. When the news of a new crusade reached the East, the local Christians, pilgrims and European merchants were exposed to renewed persecutions.
The People's Crusade was a popular movement of crusaders who did not wait for the official leaders of the expedition but took off for the Holy Land early.
May 23, 2017 · After the crusades began, prophets and preachers alike began to campaign for men to raise up against the Muslims, who were being presented as a savage people, alien to God. They pushed for men to join the Crusades, for men to take up arms for their God and to become one of the “Soldiers for Christ”.
Jul 9, 2018 · Around 60,000 soldiers and at least half again of non-combatants were involved in the First Crusade which set off on their quest in 1095. After campaigns in Asia Minor and the Middle East, great cities such as Nicaea and Antioch were recaptured, and then the real objective, Jerusalem itself.
What persuaded people in the Christian West to want to recapture Jerusalem? What impact did the success of the First Crusade (1099) have on the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities of the eastern Mediterranean? What was the effect of crusading on the people and institutions of western Europe?
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Mar 29, 2019 · The Crusades were a series of religious and political wars fought between 1096 and 1291 for control of the Holy Land. Pope Urban II initiated the First Crusade (1096–1102) in order to aid the Christian Byzantine Empire, which was under attack by Muslim Seljuk Turks. As a result of this crusade, Europeans captured Jerusalem in 1099.
