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13 paź 2023 · The First Crusade was launched on 27 November 1095, and culminated in the siege of Jerusalem in June to July 1099 and the subsequent battle of Ascalon in August that year. However, most of the major events of the First Crusade took place after the agreed departure date: 15 August 1096.
Explore the timline of Crusades. The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains.
Crusades. 14th-century miniature of the Battle of Dorylaeum (1147), a Second Crusade battle, from the Estoire d'Eracles. The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
22 mar 2024 · After an arduous journey and numerous battles, the crusaders, including the famed Knights Templar, captured Jerusalem in 1099 and established several crusader states in the region. Capture of Jerusalem by crusaders in 1099 (Credit: unknown artist, via Wikimedia Commons )
21 paź 2024 · The Crusades were organized by western European Christians after centuries of wars of expansion. Their primary objectives were to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture territories that had formerly been Christian.
13 gru 2023 · In this article, we will cover the major events and battles of the Crusades, including the First, Second, and Third Crusades. We will also discuss key figures such as Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, and Pope Urban II.
Successive crusades were launched to the Holy Land. The knight Jean d’Alluye traveled to the Holy Land around 1240, but the circumstances of his voyage are not known (25.120.201). The Seventh and Eighth Crusades, in 1248 (38.60) and 1270, were sponsored by Louis IX, who died in Tunisia (54.1.2; 37.173.3).
