What made the first unoffical (with no military!)crusade so brutal and bloody?

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What made this first unoffical (Unsanctioned by the Pope with no real military support) crusade so brutal and bloody?

Answer 1

First there was no seperation of Church and State at the time of the first Holy Crusade: 1095 A. D. So in other words your religion was your politics. To say you were a Protestant or a Catholic or a Mohamedan (Muslim) back then was equally as emotional as if you said today you were a communist or a klansman or a satanist. So religious feelings can get pretty intense and sometimes nasty.

Back then Islam was considered by the Christians to be a cult, a newly founded pagan religion which was not recognized. All pagans in Europe who refused to convert to the one true religion where burned as heretics by the Catholic Church. In 1071 the Muslims began persecuting Christians making pilgrimges to the Holy Lands. The wealthy Christians going to Jerusalem and Bethlehem to visit where the Lord was born and crucified were being robbed, kidnapped, murdered, and tortured by the Muslims. The Muslims then began to capture Christian Holy Lands and they captured the Holy city of Jeruselum. The Mohamedians did not know that Christianity was the one true faith! All this just added to Christian resentment to a religion the Christians considered to be just a cult.

In 1071 Pope Urban II spoke out against Islamic imperialism and organized the first (out of six) Holy Crusades to push back the imperialistic and murderous Muslim infidels.

In 1071 A.D. the Mohamedians (Muslims) were a fanatical and kill-crazy group who tortured and enslaved Christians any chance they got. They defiled the Christian Holy Lands where the Lord, Jesus Christ, came down to earth to save man from satan and evil. The Pope guaranteed any knight who fought in the Crusade would have their sins remitted. So the Christian knights were not afraid to die or to kill the heathen pagans who defiled the Christian Holy Lands with their heresy.

So the first crusades in 1071 A. D. got off with a bang. All the Christian knights had God on their side and were going to teach those Muslim heretics a lesson for defiling the lands of Jesus's birth, childhood, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection. This was at a time period when torture and executions happened on a day to day basis, and warfare was particularly brutal. Don't forget that Muslims don't believe that Jesus died on the cross and they don't believe that Jesus was God. So this infuriated the Christian Crusaders even more. Winning a war meant absolute victory, wiping the enemy off the face of the earth. And this attitude of warfare as practiced in Europe was brought to the Holy Lands by the Crusaders and applied against the Muslims. In 1071 A. D.: Blood + Brutality = Victory.

Answer 2

well, all fighting is brutal and bloody,,,, we just dont often see vivid images of it, where as the crusades are written about in detail,,,,,,, but also some factors were that it was hand to hand combat,,,,,,, whacking and stabbing at each other,,,, basically no medical treatment,,,,, many survivable injuries lead to amputations due to infection,,,, death from disease not battle related,,, rare prisoners of war, most were murdered,,,,,,, the things we hold up as atrocities in modern times were common and accepted back then

perhaps an example is, if you had two gangs, of ten each, shooting at each other, yes you are going to get some death, some blood, some innocent victims most likely

if you have the same two gangs, with switchblades, attacking each other,, alot more blood, probably more injury and death,,,,,,, and if the situation was any survivors then got to go attack and kill the families of the dead, or anyone else around,,,,,, the bloodshed would increase

Answer 3

The unofficial "Crusaders" killed any non-Christian who wasn't willing to become one. This killing was done by brutal manners, and I think thousands, if not more, died as a result. Priests who sheltered Jews or Muslims (if there where there and then) were also in danger, for these "crusaders" considered themselves "more Pius then the priests".

Answer 4

You're referring, I suppose to the The

Holy Wars.

Could be 1. No generals behind the lines.

2. No tactical 3. No strategic. 4. No

rules of engagement.

In other words, what am I saying?



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Answer 5

What do you mean: No military?
All knights were by definition fighters.
What would sanctification have changed in that?
Crusades were by definition military projects.
They were designed to recaptured the land that
had been lost to the Infidels.
How could that work without bloodshed?

Hope to have helped!