a crucial event in European history. Baldwin of Boulogne and Godfrey of Bouillon were two men that added to the development of the First Crusade. Also during the time of the Crusade, Christianity was spread and ideas were transported between Europe and the Middle East. Overall, there were several aspects that contributed to the First Crusade. The first man that played a role in the First Crusade was Baldwin of Boulogne. After joining the First Crusade, Baldwin left the army to establish himself in
The Fourth Crusade and the reasons for the destruction of Constantinople The period of the crusades can be seen as one of much death and destruction for minimal gains, without the crusades however, it is very plausible that Europe itself would have been swallowed whole by the invading Muslim armies. As much as the crusades had been seen as valiant efforts by the Christian knights, they also played a crucial part in many terrible acts occurring in the name of them, in particular The Fourth Crusades
• The Pope has agreed to help defend the Byzantine Empire! After being appealed to by Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, in 1095, Pope Urban II assembled the Council of Clermont. In order to help the Byzantine Empire and ensure his power over the church he has decided to call for a military expedition to get back the Holy Land. • After hearing about Pope Urban II’s pronouncement, huge amounts of people are now moving across Europe! However, most of these first responders seem to be religious people as opposed
The Fourth Crusade Is karma the reason for the slow but evident sinking of Venice into the Mediterranean? Maybe it is indemnity for the cruel selfish acts of Venice during the Fourth Crusade. The Venetians along with crusaders robbed Constantinople for personal gains. The Fourth Crusade should be an example that it is crude and unjust to attack fellow men for no reason. The Crusades were a series of battles and short wars against the Muslims. In the eleventh century Jerusalem had been taken over
The Crusades “The Crusades: series of wars by Western European Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.” (Encarta “Crusades”) The Crusades first began in 1096 and ended in the late 13th century. The term Crusade originally meant that the European’s would use all their efforts to regain the power from the Muslims. They wanted to retake the city of Jerusalem, which was holy to Christians because that’s where the crucifixion of Jesus Christ occurred. Europeans later used it to allocate
swore fealty to Alexios I Komnenos, he claimed the city as his own without technically breaking any promise. However, Baldwin came later and was astonished that Tancred thought of such a plan to capture the city and claim it as his own. In fact, Baldwin praised Tancred for thinking of the plan, then promptly demanded control of the city. Tancred begrudgingly handed over control of Tarsus to Baldwin, since Baldwin had thousands of more troops than Tancred. However, Baldwin had broken his sacred oath
In March 1095 Alexius II Comnenus, who was at the time emperor of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe, sent emissaries to Western Europe requesting military assistance from Pope Urban against the Seljuk Turks in Constantinople. The exact words of the emissaries were not recorded but the message was received by Pope Urban II at the Council of Piacenza, and it was clear that European soldiers were wanted to serve in Alexius’s army. Later that same year, in November, Pope Urban
The Crusades reach different aspects of history from war, politics and economics to religions and cultural diversity. A crusade is defined as a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm by Merriam-Webster.com. Based upon the research on crusades and holy wars, it stated that in 1095, Pope Urban II sent out knights of West Europe to help the Christians that were dominated by Muslims in Near East. The Crusades is told to be understood better as a series of holy wars triggered by religious
Chartres, in what is now France, Fulcher attended the Council of Clermont, accompanying his overlord, Stephen of Blois, to southern Italy, Bulgaria, and Constantinople in 1096, following the call to action instigated by Pope Urban II as response to a request for assistance from the Byzantine emperor Alexius I. In June 1097, Fulcher became chaplain to Baldwin of Flanders, with whom he remained, traveling with him to Jerusalem in the winter of 1099. Fulcher, who remained in Jerusalem for the remainder of
Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos, informing the Pope of the Seljuk Turks who had recently invaded Anatolia, which was once a part of the Byzantine Empire. Later that year on November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II gave a speech to the people. There is no manuscript of the speech, however it must have been very effective, as the people started to rally up others to join the fight to extrude the Seljuk Turks from the Christian’s holy land. Part of one of his speeches was, “I, or rather the Lord, beseech
four main armies, consisting mostly of people from French backgrounds, and their families, for they believed they would succeed and gain new land quickly. Although the four armies took different routes, they all had the same first destination – Constantinople. Each Army was led by a
lands captured by Saladin in an effort to preserve Christian rule in the region. In this essay I will argue that the Crusades were a complex series of campaigns which cannot be arbitrarily defined as solely defensive or expansionist exercises. Rather, their interpretation should be more nuanced; with each Crusade intended for both the expansion and defence of Christian territories to varying degrees. I shall be primarily investigating the expansion or defence of the boundaries of Christendom from