HST 584 Lecture Notes - Komnenos, Herding, Pope Urban Ii
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Point of the crusades: alexius makes a call to the pope to convince people from western europe to help conquer asia minor. Why was western europe so concerned: there was concern in western europe about the byzantine. Empire regarding the loss of the byzantines to the turks. Jerusalem was a holy site for three religions. Christians as feudalism was causing war. (1) 1000: abasid. Fatimid are emerging as a new power. (3) 1071: battle of. Byzantine empire falls under political chaos and civil war. (5) 1095: pope urban ii calls meeting in clairmont france with religious and secular leaders. Wanted to redirect war behaviour among knights toward turks instead. Summoned all knights to aid the christians in the byzantine. Pope was a theoretical leader, therefore several leaders emerged. (7) 1097: real knights show up in. Alexius made them swear homage to him, in which all the land would be his after the crusade.