Who were the First Crusaders and why did they go?
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- Created on: 20-04-21 10:45
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- Why did people join the first Crusade in 1095?
- Territory
- Urban promised the Crusaders that they could keep the territory they conquer
- Primogeniture Laws
- Baldwin of Boulogne
- settled as ruler of Edessa in 1098
- Baldwin of Boulogne
- promise of territory was desirable for those in the nobility more than peasants
- Religious zeal
- Remission of Sins
- Just War
- Fighting for God
- Urban pledged that those who fought for god would go to heaven when they died
- 'Armed' pilgrimage to the Holy Lands
- the goal was to take back Jerusalem - the most sacred city in Christianity
- Remission of Sins
- Material Gain
- Primogeniture Laws
- First born sons received inheritance, younger sons wanted to try their luck to make their own fortune in the Holy Lands
- The Holy Lands had very wealthy trade routes which the Crusaders wanted to be a part of/ exploit
- Primogeniture Laws
- Political reasons
- increased papal power
- Papal Army
- fighting directly for God
- assert authority over the secular rulers eg Henry of Germany
- Papal Army
- increased papal power
- Pope Urbans Sermon at Clermont in 1095
- invoked all classes of society, nobility and peasants
- promised home properties would be protected by the Church
- in reality this did not happen, land was seized and families attacked
- promised home properties would be protected by the Church
- Peasants were so moved to arms that Peter the Hermit led the People's Crusade (which completely failed)
- medieval Europe was a period of violence, people were willing to channel that to fight the infidels in the East
- Killing would not be sinful
- pitched the Crusade as an armed pilgrimage
- 'fight a race alien to god'
- Appealed to the French nobility including Raymond of Toulouse, Bohemond of Taranto, Tacred and Godfrey of Buillon
- invoked all classes of society, nobility and peasants
- Territory
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