Early crusades
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- The crusades began when Alexius I Comnenus asked for help against the Seljuk Turks.
- Alexius I Comnenus
- Guys...I need some help fighting off the Seljuk Turks
- At the Council of Clermont in southern France near the end of 1095, Urban II asked Christians to take up their weapons and join in a holy war. The pope promised: "All who die . . . shall have immediate remission [forgiveness] of sins.
- Council of Clermont -1095
- Christians...grab your weapons and join me in warAll who die shall have immediate forgiveness of sins
- Jerusalem in June 1099
- Warriors of western Europe, particularly France, formed the first crusading armies. These knights were mostly motivated by religious fervor, Others saw a chance to gain wealth and a possible title.
- Doing this for God
- Jerusalem in 1169
- Man i hope i get filthy rich from this
- I'm starting to rethink this...
- After asking for help, the Byzantines became doubtful. Alexius I and his daughter, Anna Comnena, were fearful that the western crusading armies, which would have to go through Byzantine lands to reach their objective, might prove harmful to the Byzantine Empire.
- The crusaders proceeded down the Palestinian coast and reached Jerusalem in June 1099. The Holy City was taken amid a horrible massacre of its inhabitants.
- n 1187 Jerusalem fell to Muslim forces under Saladin. Saladin had made himself sultan of Egypt in 1169 and then become leader of the Muslim offensive against the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Saladin
- I am now sultan of Egypt
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