crusades

     

The Crusaes were a series of military conflicts of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal threats; there was also rioting. Crusades were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against pagan Slavs, Jews, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, and political enemies of the popes. Crusaders took vows and were granted an indulgence for past sins.

Trivia about crusades

  • The third of these military expeditions was led by Frederick I Barbarossa, Philip II & Richard the Lion-Hearted
  • Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanied her 1st husband, King Louis VII, on the 2nd one of these in 1147
  • The second of these military campaigns was proclaimed by Pope Eugene III in 1147
  • Bohemond I was a great leader of the first of these expeditions, in the 1090s
  • Raisins came to the West in the 11th C. when knights brought them back after these military expeditions
  • While Louis VII of France was off on one of these, Suger the Abbot of St. Denis ran the country in his stead
  • King Frederick Barbarossa drowned in 1190 while on the way to the third of these
  • St. Louis, Missouri was named for King Louis IX of France, who led the Seventh & Eighth of these military debacles
  • 1147-1149:In the Holy Land, for the second time
  • During the third of these military expeditions, the Palestinian ports of Acre & Jaffa were captured, but not Jerusalem
  • Constantinople was the meeting point in 1097 when 4 European armies launched the first of these
  • The yellow & white Vatican flag bears the colors of Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the first of these in 1096
  • Louis IX of France died during the eighth of these campaigns
  • King Louis IX, leading the seventh of these, was captured in Egypt April 6, 1250
  • One of the premier leaders of this enterprise, Duke Godfrey of Bouillon led the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099
  • Holy medieval military expeditions(8)
  • "Gerusalemme liberata" depicts these military conflicts that took place 500 years before the work was written

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