Personal Experiences: My Experience Of The Crusades

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Hi, I am the Crusades. The first happening of me was in 1095; Pope Urban II started the first of many. He started the first Crusades to take Jerusalem back from the Muslims. Along with getting the Muslims out of Jerusalem, Urban wanted to get the Turks out of the Byzantine Empire. Urban convinced many of the knights in Western Europe to come along on the First Crusade. Many of the knights came because they might have committed sin and want to be forgiven by god and they thought that they might get rich by taking wealth from Jerusalem. Also, the pope told them that if they die while fighting they would go to heaven because they died fighting for god. During the first part of me, the first knights reached Jerusalem by 1099. They crushed the Muslims but they didn’t just kill men, the Crusaders also killed many women and children. During the second part of me, the Muslims captured one of the colonies, but the Christians were able to get it back. After the second part of me, a Muslim leader started a Jihad, an Islamic holy war, which was when the Muslims recaptured Jerusalem. There was a third part of me and King Richard of England led me. The Christians won a couple of battles but the Muslims managed to keep a hold on Jerusalem. By 1291, the Muslims had all of the Holy Lands. Although I was pretty much unsuccessful, I did have a huge impact on Western Europe. When all of the soldiers came back home, they told …show more content…

When she was 15, she married Louis VII, the heir of the French throne. When she couldn’t give him a male child, King Louis VII ended the marriage. She regained Aquitaine. Soon after she married Henry II, king of England. When they got married, Henry II had more land in France then the king of France did. Although Henry II did own a lot of land, he did some things that did not make the archbishop Thomas Becket unhappy. He didn’t like how Henry II made priests under the authority of the royal

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