Crusading at Home
Stephen of Cloyes and his followers travelled to Paris in order to do this.
Deliver a message from God to the king
Participants in the Fifth Crusade took this port city after a lengthy siege.
Damietta
This story led Europeans to hope that the Mongols might serve as allies against the Muslims.
Legend of Prestor John
Following the fall of the crusader kingdoms in 1291, many crusader families relocated here.
Cyprus
Lack of these originally motivated participants in the Fourth Crusade to make a contract with the Venetians.
Ships
Although participants in the Children’s Crusade believed that God could work through the poor and humble, they were frustrated by this.
maritime transport
This prevented Frederick II from going on crusade in 1227 and resulted in his excommunication.
sickness
His presence in the Holy Land following the Seventh Crusade led to the cooling of factionalism and the rebuilding of fortifications.
King Louis IX
Following the fall of the crusader kingdoms, this military order remained relevant by capturing the island of Rhodes.
Hospitalers
Pope Innocent III did this to crusaders after they attacked the city of Zara.
He excommunicated them.
This organization played a central role in the Baltic Crusades.
the Teutonic Knights
In the 1220s, Frederick II gained a claim to the crown of Jerusalem by doing this.
marrying the daughter of the King of Jerusalem – Isabella II
Following their capture of Damietta in 1249, the Seventh Crusaders faced a choice between targeting these two cities.
Alexandria or Cairo
This event in Western Europe in the 1500s and 1600s served to undermine the crusading impulse.
the Protestant Reformation
He promised the Fourth crusaders money, troops, and the return of the Greek church to Roman obedience if they would restore him to the throne of Constantinople.
Alexius IV
Unlike crusades to the Holy Land, the Baltic Crusades focused on doing this to opponents.
converting them
He was blamed for the failure of the Fifth Crusade – in part because he refused to accept the settlement offered by the Muslims.
Pelagius
He unwisely led his troops into the city of Mansurah and was killed by Muslim forces.
Robert of Artois
This well-known historian portrayed the crusaders as barbarians destroying the sophisticated cultures of the East.
Runciman
What the crusaders did immediately after conquering Constantinople in 1204.
Sacked the city
Planning to go to the Holy Land, he and his followers marched south to Italy before eventually dispersing and going home.
Nicolas of Cologne
Having negotiated the return of the city of Jerusalem, Frederick II upset the locals with this action.
his coronation
This was the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land to fall to Muslim forces.
Acre
He conquered Persia and defeated the Ottomans in 1402, providing a brief reprieve from Muslim attack to the Byzantine Empire.
Tamerlane
Along with issuing a crusading bull, Innocent III took this action to support the Fourth Crusade in 1198.
He instituted a new tax.