2006-11-07 14:26:54 · 4 answers · asked by pirate_babe970 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Christian Crusades: 1095-1291
1st 1095-1099, called by Pope Urban II and led by Peter the Hermit, Walter the Penniless, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin and Eustace of Flanders, and others
2nd 1147-49, headed by King Louis VII who was enlisted by Bernard of Clairvaux, was a disastrous failure, including the loss of one of the four Latin Kingdoms, the Duchy of Edessa
3rd 1188-92, proclaimed by Pope Gregory VIII in the wake of the catastrophe of the second crusade, which conducted by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Philip Augustus of France and King Richard "Coeur-de-Lion" of England
4th During which Constantinople was sacked, 1202-1204
5th Which included the conquest of Damietta, 1217-1221
6th In which Frederick II took part (1228-29); also Thibaud de Champagne and Richard of Cornwall (1239)
7th Led by St. Louis (Louis IX of France), 1248-50
2006-11-07 14:30:04 · answer #1 · answered by Muinghan Life During Wartime 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Crusades were actually a number of completely independent military actions. I assume you're asking about the First Crusade, and that began in 1095.
2006-11-07 22:34:36 · answer #2 · answered by mr_mumbles_nyc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, the term Crusade wasn't coined until the Third Crusade.
2006-11-08 10:08:32 · answer #3 · answered by Thought 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1095
2006-11-08 01:41:38 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋