21 Facts About Crusaders

Crusaders encouraged military support for Byzantine emperor AlexiosI against the Seljuk Turks and called for an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

The first Crusaders had a variety of motivations, including religious salvation, satisfying feudal obligations, opportunities for renown, and economic or political advantage.

In transit through Germany, these Crusaders spawned German bands who massacred Jewish communities in what became known as the Rhineland massacres.

The Crusaders entered, massacring the Muslim inhabitants as well as many Christians.

At this point, most Crusaders considered their pilgrimage complete and returned to Europe.

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Crusaders was lying in state for five days, before his burial at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Crusaders died in 1111, leaving Tancred as regent to his son Bohemond II, who ignored the treaty.

The Crusaders were able to capture the town of Banias, but were unable to take Damascus despite coming within six miles of the town.

In 1135, Zengi moved against Antioch and, when the Crusaders failed to put an army into the field to oppose him, he captured several important Syrian town.

Crusaders defeated Fulk at the Battle of Ba'rin of 1137, seizing Ba'rin Castle.

The Crusaders fought the Battle of Bosra with the Damascenes in the summer of 1147, with no clear winner.

The barons of Jerusalem withdrew support and the Crusaders retreated before the arrival of a relief army led by Nur-ad-Din.

Crusaders undertook a series of four invasions of Egypt from 1163 to 1169, taking advantage of weaknesses of the Fatimids.

Crusaders's death caused several thousand German soldiers to leave the force and return home.

Crusaders withdrew his legate to disassociate from the attack but seemed to have accepted it as inevitable.

Crusaders offered to surrender the kingdom of Jerusalem, less the fortresses of al-Karak and Krak de Montreal, guarding the road to Egypt, in exchange for the evacuation of Egypt.

Crusaders sent his emissaries to inform Gregory IX of the situation, but the pope did not care about Frederick's illness, just that he had not lived up to his agreement.

Crusaders's life was spared, and as soon as his health permitted him, he took the cross and immediately began preparations.

Crusaders forged a document which appointed his son al-Muazzam Turanshah, then in Syria, as heir and Fakhr ad-Din as viceroy.

Crusaders supported King Manfred of Sicily's failed resistance to the attack of Charles and the papacy.

Crusaders were on a personal pilgrimage and usually returned when it was completed.