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  2. There are 3 reasons why Pope Urban II started the first crusade. First, Pope Urban used the Crusade to reinforce Papal authority over medieval Europe after the Investiture Controversy. Second, Pope Urban II used the crusade as an outlet for European knights to fight someone besides themselves.

  3. Why the Crusaders Went. The pope’s representatives then traversed Europe, recruiting people to go to Palestine. The list of the First Crusade’s leaders read like a medieval “Who’s Who,”...

  4. Council of Clermont, an assembly for church reform called by Pope Urban II in 1095, which became the occasion for initiating the First Crusade. Urban II exhorted the French knights at Clermont to rescue the Holy Land from the Turks. The event inaugurated the medieval religious wars against the Muslims.

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  5. Jun 14, 2019 · The appeal of Pope Urban II had the effect of uniting Western Europe in a common purpose, helping to strengthen the supremacy of the Pope and reduce national divisions, such as the rival Holy Roman Empire. Later in the same year, French armies who heeded Pope Urban IIs call removed his rival Clement III from Rome.

  6. Melissa Snell. Updated on April 12, 2019. Pope Urban II was known for beginning the Crusade Movement, instigating with his call to arms at the Council of Clermont. Urban also continued and expanded on the reforms of Gregory VII, and helped the papacy become a stronger political unit.

  7. Jul 4, 2018 · Pope Urban II (r. 1088-1099 CE) received Alexios' appeal in 1095 CE, but it was not the first time the Byzantine emperor had asked and got papal help. In 1091 CE the pope had sent troops to help the Byzantines against the Pecheneg steppe nomads who were invading the northern Danube area of the empire.

  8. Elected pope in 1088, Urban secured his authority against the antipope Clement III and strengthened the role of the papacy in the reform movement. He called for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont (1095) in response to the appeal of Alexius I Comnenus , promoted the union of the Eastern and Western churches, and supported the Christian ...

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