First Crusade

I would argue the First Crusade was the only one which was successful, when judged by the criteria of its achieving its intended objectives. Despite disputes with the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I over provisions, swearing of fealty, conquered lands, and use of the Bosporus Strait, and the utter destruction of Peter the Hermit’s forces, the Crusader forces eventually succeeded in securing numerous military victories and capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem. Of course, the Crusaders were fortunate…

Motivations of the Crusaders The crusades were a holy conquest primarily taken up in the hands of Europeans, at the request of a pious individual. They represent an incredibly prominent era of world history. An era of political conflicts, both internal and external. However, very often the motivations for the different groups active in these conflicts are ignored, or manifest in an oversimplification of the truth. The first crusade, which was initiated by Pope Urban II in response to the…

during the Scholastic movement. The church would often use Aquinas to defend the church in scholarly settings, and used his writings to teach incoming priests. During his time of writing one of his most famous works, Summa Theologica, the seventh crusade was coming to an end. This was also at a time where the Papacy was struggling to spread their claim farther and farther away from rome. Often attempting to accomplishing this through conquests on the basis that it was justified warfare. Thomas…

The speech at the Council of Clermont by pope Urban II was the defining moment in Crusades ideology, creating the foundation for the first large scale Crusades to take place. With the newly found five accounts of the Council I’ll try to paint an accurate picture as possible of what exactly occurred. There is no official transcript from pope Urban II; instead these documents provide first hand accounts of what occurred. Whether they are reliable or not is another matter. Since each document…

main driving force for the Crusades was to recover the “Holy Lands” from Muslim rule. The first Crusade’s start involved the Byzantine emperor Alexius and his conflict with emerging Turkish influence. The second Crusade sought to recover lands lost to the Turkish. The second Crusade was inspired by Bernard of Clairvaux, a reforming monk. The fourth Crusade was led by French barons. The outcomes of the Crusades were mainly losses for Christianity. In the first crusade, Pope Urban II’s…

7S 9th May The Crusades: Good or Bad? The Crusades were a battle of religion which included some of the most gruesome and horrific battles in history. The Crusades was a series of battles between the Christians and the Muslims (1095-1291), to take control of Jerusalem. If people want to know the truth, it is critical that they have to look at both sides of the arguments. The Christians believed the first Crusade was good because they accomplished their goals, but the other Crusades were a…

The Crusades Though they are a dark part of the Christian history, it is still very important to remember how and why the Crusades occurred. The Crusades began first in 1093 when Alexius Comnenus, the Byzantine emperor sent an appeal to the Count of Flanders to ask for help against Muslim turks who had threatened to take over his capital, Constantinople. Over the next 300 years there would be several of different Crusades. (TEXTBOOK, 2009.) Later In 1095 Pope Urban II called for this attack on…

The crusades is a sequences of revolutionary actions that started back in the eleventh century going through in the late thirteen century. In general the crusades was basically about a mixture between religious awareness and military initiatives. In Europe the Christians were impatient to take back Jerusalem which is known as their holy land. The church had the power to Knights, Chiefs and even Popes that were impatient to transfer their religion to other nations. The Islamic militaries were…

The Holy Wars The Crusades, every high school graduate in America has heard in class those two words said at least once. It is a pivotal point in the history of the Catholic Church. Without these Holy Wars thousands would not have died, over 156 years there was a lot accomplished but yet nothing accomplished, but yet “God wills it!”, that was the cry of the crusaders. The First Crusade was started by the Pope and a message he spoke to the Council of Claremont. The Crusaders were promised…

cycles of Crusades in Jerusalem did start certain events that ruined the European society for many years. Of course there were three main crusades, the first was in 1099, the second during 1120’s, and the third…