Crusader

and the facts that are difficult to understand about the Crusades continue to fascinate people in the present-day. In my essay I will be talking about myths associated with the Crusades which include the Children’s Crusade, the motivation of the Crusaders to take the cross to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims, and the pope called a Crusade against the Jews (Madden, 2002). The effect of the Crusades are the split of the Church into East and West, that exist today. The Crusades was a war between…

saw gaining the Holy Land back as a sacred duty because the Muslims were seen to be “enemies of Christ”. “Deus lo Volt”, which means God wills it, was chanted after hearing the Pope’s speech and soon became the motto for these wars. Little did the Crusaders know that they were going to face 300 years of fighting with the Holy…

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 Jerusalem from the Seljuks. The Shiites saw an opportunity to weaken their rival and so, offered control of Syria to the Crusaders with Jerusalem staying in their control. The…

Maren Hance Professor Rick Cherok History of Christianity September 20th, 2017 God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark Book Review Rodney Stark, author of God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, writes about how Crusaders, which were holy warriors, considered themselves to be true servants in God’s battalions. Author Rodney Stark, Professor of Social Sciences at Baylor University, clears up and explains many misunderstandings about the Crusades in this book. In…

Saint-Gilles, Godfrey of Bouillon, Hugh of Vermandois and Bohemond of Taranto. The Templars ended up doing what they called Crusades in which they went and attacked threats to Israel. There were a total of six Crusades. By the first they were known as Crusaders. There were four known Crusade States, each defended by a castle. The Templars were a unique and dangerous breed of soldiers. Every Templar looked and drilled the same way. Most Templars wore a bullet like helmet, Others wore more of…

People's Crusade ended badly and unfortunately failed, resulting in most of the Crusaders being killed by Turkish soldiers. The Third Crusade By joining the German,…

The small army was a less organized group of knights and ordinary citizens, known as the “People’s Crusade.” One group of the Crusaders was led by a popular preacher named Peter the Hermit and the second group was led by Count Emicho. They arrived in Constantinople where Emperor Alexius I advised them to wait for the rest of the Crusaders, but they ignored him and set off to fight the Seljuk Turks. They went on a series of massacres and and vanquished Jews in different towns, but…

originated in 1096 as religious inspired military campaigns to recapture the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the Muslims and protect Christendom. Throughout the course of the Crusades, crusaders attacked fellow Christians, allied with Muslims, and went to other locations, including the Byzantine Empire and Languedoc. While other crusaders fought Christian heretics in the Albigensian Crusade, the Children’s Crusade of 1212 sought to fulfill the mission and travel to Jerusalem. Although both the…

Second Crusade led by King Louis VII of France and King Conrad III of Germany to protect the newfound states. They began by leading an attack on Damascus, a stronghold of the Syrians, with an army that totaled around 50,000 soldiers. The invading Crusaders failed to take control of Damascus due to the strength of the Muslim army which ended the…

the main goal for the war reconquest of Jerusalem and other Holy Land that had been under Muslim rule. Once the Crusaders arrived they began to launch assaults throughout the cities in the Middle East ending with the capture of Jerusalem, devastating the current population of Jerusalem with “blood flowing freely in the streets. Jews fled to a synagogue and Muslims to a mosque. Crusaders burned the synagogue, killing about 6,000 Jews, and stormed the mosque, butchering an estimated 30,000…