Council of Clermont

Jews. Although Muslims and Christians had different goals, both religions partook in Holy Wars, in the name of God, against external religions to validate the importance of their religion. The primary sources, An Account of Pope Urban’s Speech at Clermont, The Capture of…

“Deus Veult!"- God wills it! cried Pope Urban II’s audience in 1095 at The Council of Clermont. This Papal sanction supposedly initiated the beginning of the First Crusade; a holy war designed to recapture Jerusalem in August 1096. Byzantine Emperor of Constantinople; Alexios I Komnenos appealed to Urban to request aid to resist the Seljuk Turks who occupied Antolia and the majority of Asian Minor. Pope Urban’s unusually secular desire for a legacy may have been a partial motivation for his…

The Crusades is an interesting topic that many people have never heard of, although they changed history. They were a series of seven battles that lasted two centuries. It greatly affected life in Europe, and it all started with a man named Pope Urban II, who showed significant care for his religion. Christians during the Middle Ages always wished to have control over their holy city of Jerusalem, where Jesus had lived his whole life in. They took their religion, Christianity, seriously,…

Bernard and Fulcher both induce readers to the world of knights, both Christian and non-Christian. Each different knight has a different lifestyle based on their belief system, and this shows in how they are able to battle and conduct themselves. They hold high standards for Christian knights in everything they do. Non-Christian knights are viewed with distaste and concern. Bernard basically calls non-Christian knights women, claiming that they do not have the strength to fight for themselves.…

began. I knew how to work this thing only because I watch a lot of Dexter’s Laboratory as a child, therefore I dialed the knob back a few hundreds of years and ended up at the first Buddhist council in China and next a battle with the first Crusades. Some might wonder why would I want to go to a Buddhist council in China, well why wouldn’t a person want to know about that fat guy statue or better known as Siddhartha Gautama, that sits in the Chinese…

themselves. Rather than preserving the Holy Land with Christianity as the First crusade was primed to do, the Second Crusade was an unorganized mess that ended up being a failure. The First Crusade was called upon by Pope Urban the second at the council in Clermont. There he stated, “On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to…

The Crusades started in 1095, and were a series of Christian military wars set in place so that the Christians could take back Jerusalem(Holy Land) from the Muslims. There are a few misconceptions about whether the Christians were just attacking the Muslims out of spite, and taking their land. The truth is that, the Holy Land originally belonged to the Christians and it was taken over by the Muslims, the Christians were only reclaiming what was theirs in the first place. There were eight…

His words illustrate that he does not approve of the way that the Franks had attached themselves to an object. He implies that they are foolish and lack true faith because they allow themselves to be so heavily affected by the condition of the cross. The Christian View of Muslim Virtues The European Christians often describe the Muslims as possessing characteristics of Satan. In “History of the Jerusalem Journey”16 by Peter Tudebode, a Christian knight is captured by the Muslims and faces…

With the Seijuk Turks of focal Asia weighing down on Constantinople, Emperor Alexius I swung toward the West for help, bringing about the presentation of "blessed war" by Pope Urban II at Clermont (France) that started the First Crusade. As armed forces from France, Germany and Italy filled Byzantium, Alexius attempted to compel their pioneers to make a solemn vow of faithfulness to him keeping in mind the end goal to ensure that area recaptured…

In November of 1095, the Pope called on Western Christians at the Council of Clermont in Southern France to take up arms and help aid the Byzantines in the recapture of the Holy Land. “When Jesus Christ summons you to his defence, let no base affection detain you in your homes; whoever will abandon his house, or his father, or…