The Crusades Chart2
The Crusades Chart2
The Crusades Chart2
First
Crusade
Second Crusade
Third Crusade
Fourth Crusade
Dates/
Range
1096
1099 AD
1147-1149
1189- 1192
1202-1204
Partici
pants
(name
and
descri
ption)
Alexius
Comnenus
Byzantine
Emperor
Pope
Urban II
started the
first
Crusade
Peter the
Hermit a
monk from
Amiens in
France who
recruited
peasants as
Crusaders
Godfrey of
Bouillon
leader of
Crusaders;
king of the
Latin
Kingdom of
Jerusalem
Baldwin
leader of
Crusaders;
ruler of the
County of
Edessa
Raymond
of Toulouse
leader of
Crusaders;
ruler of the
County of
Tripoli
Bohemond
of Italy
ruler of the
Principality
of Antioch
Pope Eugenius
III
Bernard of
Clairvaux
King Louis
VII (France)
Roman
Emperor
Conrad III
Pope Innocent
III-called for a
new crusade to
regain the Holy
Land
The Dogevenetian duke;
told the
Crusaders to
attack Zara
(Christian city), a
Venetian rival
Venetians
Franks
Greek Church
Latin Church
Moslems
Christian
Crusaders
Journe
y/Rout
e
(inclu
de an
image
)
1. From
Clermont,
the call for
a crusade
spread
throughout
Europe
2. Peter the
Hermit lead
his peasant
Crusaders
through the
Rhineland,
stopping in
present-day
Bulgaria
3.
Remaining
peasant
Crusaders
traveled to
Constantino
ple, across
the
Bosporus,
and landed
in Asia
Minor
4. First city
the
Crusaders
reached was
Nicaea.
5. After
marching
through
Asia Minor,
the
Crusaders
laid siege to
Antioch, in
northern
Syria.
6. From
Syria, they
moved
In 1144, the
Muslims
recaptured
Edessa from
the Crusaders.
King Louis
VII and
Emperor
Conrad III
attacked
Damascus, but
the siege
failed.
Louis and
Conrad
returned to
Europe.
Through Zara to
Constantinople
south and
attacked
Jerusalem,
gaining the
Holy Land.
Specif
ic
Object
ive
Urban II
wanted to
reunite the
Eastern
Orthodox
Church
with the
Roman
Catholic
Church.
The
purpose of
the crusade
was to aid
the
Christians
of the East
and to
liberate the
Holy Land
from the
Moslem
infidels.
After the
First
Crusade,
the
Crusaders
now had
500 miles
of land
along the
eastern
Mediterrane
an coast,
which was
split up into
four
empires.
Regaining the
Holy Land
(Jerusalem)
Miscel
laneou
s
Infor
matio
n
Peter the
Hermit
recruited
poor
peasants as
Crusaders.
After
assembling
over 30,000
townspeopl
e, Peter led
his group to
the Holy
Land,
massacring
the Jews
whom they
encountered
. The
peasant
Crusaders
were
attacked by
the Bulgars;
the
remnants of
the army
reached
Constantino
ple and
transported
across the
Bosporus.
After
landing in
Asia Minor,
the Turks
who
attacked
them sold
the
Crusaders
into slavery
and
massacred
them.
In 1146,
Bernard of
Clairvaux
offered a large
group of
knights
protection
under the
Church,
freedom from
debt, and
forgiveness of
sins and
absolution in
exchange for
volunteering.
The Venetian
doge bargained
with the
Crusaders by
Richard sieged Acre, but could not
allowing them
recapture Jerusalem. In 1192 Richard
passage if they,
and Saladin agreed to a treaty allowing
in return would
Christians pilgrims access to
capture the
Jerusalem.
Venetian enemy
Fracture between England and France city of Zara. This
attack
that started here is what caused an
complicated
almost 100 year war
things because it
was a Christian
city and the
confusion led to
an attack on
Constantinople.
Constantinople
fell for the first
time in history
and the
Crusaders gained
tons of wealth.
Even after the
Byzantines
reclaimed
Constantinople
they could not
uphold the huge
city and in 1453
the Ottoman
Turks took over
the city. Lastly,
the effects of the
fourth crusade
were more issues
between the
Greek and Latin
churches.
Changes from the
idea to regain the
holy land to
reunite both
churches-instead
they just
overpower and
weaken each
other n
Sets eventual fall
of Constantinople
in motion