First Crusade
crusaders
Capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, 1099. Unidentified late medieval (14th or 15th century?) illustration probably from Sébastien Mamerot, Les Passages d'oultre mer.
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Hugo skláda vazalskou přísahu
Alexis Ier Comnène et Hugues le Grand et Conseil des croisés
L'empereur Alexis reçoit les Croisés accueillis par un haut
Auguste Migette - massacre de juifs à Metz pendant la première croisade
Balduin I.
BaldwinII ceeding the location of the Temple of Salomon to Hugues de Payns and Gaudefroy de Saint-Homer. The fourth person is Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
BaldwinII ceeding the location of the Temple of Salomon to Hugues de Payns and Gaudefroy de Saint-Homer. The fourth person is Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Baldwin of Boulogne entering Edessa in February 1098
Tancrède et les envoyés ciliciens (et non Baudouin ; source : BnF)
Estampe extraite du document illustré à propos de la ville de Toulouse
Conquest of Tripolilabel QS:Len,"Conquest of Tripoli"label QS:Lcs,"Bernard z Toulouse přijímá kapitulaci Tripolisu"label QS:Lfr,"Prise de Tripoli, 1100"
Tableau commandé par Louis-Philippe pour le musée historique de Versailles en 1838, exécuté en 1842 par Debacq
Bohemund and Daimbert, Patriarch of Jerusalem, sailing for Apulia, in a ship flying the cross of St George.
Evangelist Mark Seated in his Studytitle QS:P1476,en:"Evangelist Mark Seated in his Study"label QS:Len,"Evangelist Mark Seated in his Study"
Illustration des "quatre chefs de la première croisade" pour "L'histoire de France : depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'en 1789, racontée à mes petits-enfants" de François Guizot.
The Four Leaders of the First Crusade (1095)
Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem.
Medieval illuminated manuscript showing Peter the Hermit's People's Crusade of 1096
Medieval stained glass windows of Saint-Denis
Départ pour la première Croisade
Départ pour la première croisade. BnF, Département des manuscrits, Français 2634 f.16v
Guilherme de Tiro, História do Ultramar, manuscrito em pergaminho por volta de Ms 1280 f. 83: Eleição de Godofredo de Bulhão como advogado do Santo Sepulcro (1099).
Guillaume de Tyr, Histoire d'outremer, manuscrit sur parchemin vers Ms 1280 f. 83 : Godefroi de Bouillon prie au Saint-Sépulchre - Election de Godefroi de Bouillon comme avoué du Saint-Sépulchre (1099).
Historical Overview
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century—to Christian rule. By the 11th century, although Jerusalem had then been ruled by Muslims for hundreds of years, the practices of the Seljuk rulers in the region began to threaten local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West and the Byzantine Empire itself. The earliest impetus for the First Crusade came in 1095 when Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent ambassadors to the Council of Piacenza to request military support in the empire's conflict with the Seljuk-led Turks. This was followed later in the year by the Council of Clermont, at which Pope Urban II gave a speech supporting the Byzantine request and urging faithful Christians to undertake an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Key Battles
Outcome & Quick Facts
Outcome
Crusader victory.
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