The First Crusade:
The Second Crusade:
The Third Crusade:
The Fourth Crusade:
Other Crusades:
100
This crusader is famous because he kept a journal of the events of The First Crusade.
Who is William of Tyre?
100
These two people had called to arms The Crusade once more to retake the Edessa, which at the time was recaptured by the Muslims.
Who are Pope Eugenius III & St. Bernard of Clairvaux?
100
This person is the new Muslim leader and was making his presence felt while the Christians were engaging in faction fighting.
Who is Saladin?
100
These people responded to the call for a Fourth Crusade to, not defeat The Infidel, but more so to bring eastern heretics into line & filling their pockets with currency at the same time.
Why did the nobles respond to the call of The Fourth Crusade?
100
This person is a 12-year-old boy, French shepherd by trade who came into a fervid arena, and claimed to have encountered Christ and to have been given a letter from him that authorized his role as a preacher of The Crusade that was destined to win the Holy Land.
Who is Stephen?
200
This pope issued an everlasting salvation to anyone who participated in The First Crusade.
Who is Pope Urban II?
200
Bernard's eloquence induced these two monarchs to take the blood-red cross of a crusader.
Who are King Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany?
200
This person was a outsider in Antioch and was not greatly loved; he had done many horrible things to many people, including to a leading and much respected wealthy churchman of the city; Baldwin was horrified and Manuel was filled with rage; when this person was captured by Muslims, everybody had rejoiced from Constantinople to Jerusalem.
Who was Reynald?
200
This person had strongly supported the idea of a new crusade. Many barons had flocked to the cause. Especially because this person incurred his fellow priests to support the Fourth Crusade.
Who was Innocent III?
200
Richard of England's earlier observation was that this place was the key to the retrieval of the Latin territories, The Fifth Crusade had started here and had ended here as well.
What happened in Egypt?
300
He started The Crusades to help save his city Constantinople.
Who is Emperor Alexius I?
300
This person is one candidate for the role of the heroic figurehead that Islam had been waiting for.
Who is Imad ad-din Zangi ibn aq Sonqur/Zangi?
300
Baldwin III had died at a relatively young age of 33; and so this person who had been his brother and count of Ascalon had taken his place. This lead for the ruler of Egypt to send everything into near-chaos.
Who is Amaleric?
300
While the idea of The Fourth Crusade was still in play, there still needed to be a leader assigned, especially sense the crusade couldn't agree on anything. The crusade had an idea to go east yet the Byzantine empire never allowed it. This country had the resource and solution to this problem.
Who were the Venetians?
300
The savior of The Fifth Crusade was always hoped to be this person, who was the German holy Roman emperor; yet, this person was the deciding role for The Sixth Crusade instead.
Who is Fredrick II?
400
This walled city was important because it was the home for one of the first christian churches.
What is Antioch?
400
This place was attacked by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany instead of Jerusalem which had been ruled by Queen Melisende and her teenage son Baldwin III since the death of her husband Fulk of Anjou.
what is The Muslim capitol, Damascus?
400
The Third Crusade was difficult to raise. Ultimately, it was the crusade that became the stuff of legends as, it was this person who raised the crusade against the formidable Saladin.
Who is Richard the Lionheart of England?
400
The Venetians suddenly found themselves struggling to find a place to deliver the fighters where their own interests would not likely suffer. After a while, the Venetians tried to persuade the crusaders to start their campaign by reclaiming the territory that had fallen to this group of people; who were also fellow Christians.
Who were the Hungarians?
400
This group of people were also known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon; this group had done many despicable schemes that that included intercede war between two Muslim princes.
Who were the Templars?
500
These two people had whipped up frenzy's in favor of The Crusade.
Who are Peter the Hermit & Walter the Penniless?
500
This important figure was the emperor of Byzantine, his reputation among the new crusade was in shreds as he had a treaty with the Seljuk Turks of Asia Minor, (although he was forced into it).
Who is Manuel?
500
These three men were extremely instrumental in the defense of Tyre from the forces of Saladin.
Who were Conrad of Montfferat, Frederic Barbarossa, & King William II of Sicily?
500
Behind the push toward Constantinople was this man, his wife was the daughter-in-law of the displaced emperor of the Byzantines. And he was already excommunicated prior to the conquest of Zara.
Who was Philip of Swabia?
500
This person had launched The Eighth Crusade against the city of Tunis; which is also somewhat also part of The Seventh Crusade.
Who was Louis IX of France?
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