Lands as an act of Christianity, but there were many activities that took place that

weren't characteristics of Christianity. The Crusades were a smokescreen for Pope's

The Crusades were the idea of Pope Urban II, a wise Frenchman. On November

18, 1095 AD, Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Nine days later, the Pope

made a very important speech just outside the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. In his

speech, he asked the people to help the Christians' effort to restore peace to the East.

The Crusades had originally been to help the Churches in the East, but the now it was to

reclaim the Holy Land, especially Jerusalem from the Muslims.

Pope Urban II stayed in France until September 1096 in hopes of providing

leadership for the First Crusaders. Urban had originally hoped for the crusading army to

be composed of mostly knights and other warriors, but his speech had already began

spreading throughout the west, and many people of different social classes started joining

the crusading army. (Foss, Michael. pg. 23)

Because of this Urban lost all control of the army, which led to t

farther west, and it was one of the points in Urban's speech. In addition, the nobility's

Coolidge, Olivia. Tales of The Crusade. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1970

A. Ideas and cultural interests motivated many poor people

Greed is a harsh word to use, but it could be considered more of as economic

Political factors were yet another aspect of the Crusades. As mentioned before,

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