Council of Clermont

Pope Urban II started the First Crusade to help Byzantine Christians, to manifest papal authority, and to provide redemption for Christian souls. Thomas Asbridge¹ in his book, The First Crusade, explains that in the advent of the First Crusade in 1095, the papacy was slowly recovering. In the events leading up to the First Crusade, Europe had undergone significant political and social upheaval. The Church was divided with Eastern Christians following Orthodoxy and Western Christians following…

In 1095 at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban II gave a speech that would affect the church for many years to come. He declared that church was going to try and get the Holy Land back from the Seljuk Turks in battles that would be known as the Crusades. Since the mid-seventh century, the Muslims had controlled the Holy Land and had prevented Catholics from entering Jerusalem to make pilgrimages. The Catholics saw gaining the Holy Land back as a sacred duty because the Muslims were…

Let’s look at each of these factors in turn. In the case of motivation by religion, some historians make the point that Pope Urban II indicated at the Council of Clermont in 1095 that crusaders would be coming to the aid of Christians in the Byzantine Empire. He reported in his speech that the people of Persia, who were actually Turks and not Persians, had taken so much land from the Greek empire that it would…

Included within Phillips 434 paged book are black and white illustrations, notes, primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index. The reader will find an eloquently written book. The author begins his story with Pope Urban II speech at the council at Clermont in 1095. Author states, Urban II called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam and the need to aid King Alexious I of Byzantine in order to halt the rise of Islam in the Near East. Phillips takes the reader on the crusaders journey…

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While there have been many events that have taken place in Medieval Europe such as the fall of the Rome Empire, one of the most famous events to have occurred in the High Middle Ages was one that would bring Western Europe and the Middle East together in a violent religious clash that would become known in Medieval History as the Crusades. The Crusades were a series of religious wars which spanned from 1095-1291, that were fought between the Christian armies of the Europe and the Muslim armies…

Anthony Loverher Loverher 1 Mrs. Remington Honors English 11 December 2014 The Crusades The Crusades were a series of bloody wars during the middle ages where the Christians of Europe tried to retake control of Jerusalem. In Christianity, the crusades were expeditions of Christian Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries for the…

Both of these Caliphates were of different sects of Islam which meant they would not assist each other in case of an invading force.Although the Crusades were not successful militaristically, they were successful in other ways. In 1095 at the Council of Clermont Pope Urban II called for a Crusade to reclaim the holy city of Jerusalem, which at the time was held by the Sunni Seljuk Turks. In 1098, one year before the Crusaders began the siege of Jerusalem the Shiite Fatimids took over the city of…

were marketing, they enraged the Christians and affected the public opinion of the Turks throughout the community. In 1095 Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade to regain the Holy Land. He did this during his most famous speech at the Council of Clermont he encouraged Christians to take up the cross and fight for a cause that would not only get them rewarded spiritually but also materially. In one version of his speech he stated “…it is less wicked to brandish your sword against Saracens…

Holy Land of Jerusalem. Before the Crusades began, Alexius I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, asked Pope Urban II for help to fight against the Seljuq Turks. The Seljuq Turks had previously taken all of Asia Minor from him. At the council of Clermont, Pope Urban II confronted a decently sized crowd and promoted the idea of everyone going over to recover Palestine by assisting the Greeks defeat the Muslims. The response was incredible. Several thousands of warriors decided to fight…