23 Facts About Crusading movement

1.

The movement influenced the Church, politics, the economy, society and created a distinct ideology that described, regulated, and promoted crusading.

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2.

Crusading movement was strongly associated with the recovery of Jerusalem and the Palestinian holy places.

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3.

The Crusading movement expanded to other theatres on the periphery of Christian Europe: the Iberian Peninsula; north-eastern Europe, against the Wends; the Baltic region; against heretics in France, Germany, and Hungary; and into mainly Italian campaigns against the papacy's political enemies.

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4.

Crusading movement became part of the knightly class's self-identification, creating a cultural gap with other social classes.

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5.

Crusading movement followed this tradition, assimilating chivalry within the locus of the Church through:.

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6.

Crusading movement made decisions that were fundamental for the nascent religious movements, rebuilding papal authority and restoring its financial position.

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7.

Crusading movement subsequently expressed the dual objectives for the campaign: firstly, freeing Christians from Islamic rule; secondly, freeing the Holy Sepulchre – the tomb of Christ in Jerusalem – from Muslim control.

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8.

Urban initiated a Christian Crusading movement seen as pious and deserving but not fundamental to the concept of knighthood.

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9.

Crusading movement did not become a duty or a moral obligation—like a pilgrimage to Mecca or jihad were to Islam.

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10.

Crusading movement became the subject of songs and poems rather than creating new genres.

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11.

Crusading movement defeated the three anti-popes that followed Clement III, ending the schism in the papacy, but became embroiled in conflict with Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and Church reformists, led by his eventual successor Guy, archbishop of Vienne, over the right to invest bishops.

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12.

Crusading movement's legislation developed that of his predecessors in connection with crusading.

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13.

Crusading movement was one of the six sons of William I, Count of Burgundy and a distant relation to Baldwin II of Jerusalem.

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14.

Crusading movement equated the reconquest of Iberia from the Muslims with crusading in the Holy Land, proposing a war on two fronts, and posthumously leading to the campaign by King Alfonso I of Aragon against Granada in 1125.

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15.

The Crusading movement expanded into Spain with campaigns in 1114,1118, and 1122.

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16.

Crusading movement literature represented legendary figures with military and moral authority.

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17.

Crusading movement acknowledged Muslims' land ownership but emphasised that this was subject to Christ's authority.

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18.

Crusading movement attempted to gift Sicily to Edmund Crouchback, son of King Henry III, in return for a campaign to win it from Manfred, King of Sicily, son of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor but this was logistically impossible, and the campaigns were unsuccessful.

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19.

Crusading movement continued in the 17thcentury, mainly associated with the Hapsburgs and Spanish national identity.

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20.

That said, the crusading movement led directly to the occupation of the Byzantine Empire by western colonists after the Fourth Crusade.

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21.

Crusading movement's work described the warrior state the Outremer became as a result of the tension between the providential and the secular.

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22.

Crusading movement argues that to understand the state of the crusading movement in the 11thcentury it is better to examine the works of Urban II who died unaware of the outcome.

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23.

Crusading movement now had only a technical impact on contemporary wars but provided imagery of noble and lost causes.

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