How many people were killed in the crusades?

Question

And I mean actually killed BY crusaders...not crusaders who died. Please provide citations.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades#Legacy

There were so many crusades that are not studied in great detail. I would guess from what I've read that there must have been between 15,000 and 25,000 men on both sides, and since the crusaders themselves were often better equipped but outnumbered by their Muslim opponents, I'd estimate that close to 60% of these casualties were Muslim...although there was often great confusion and Christians often wound up killing several of their own because they spoke a different language and wore turbans, as was customary for the Middle East and still is today. This is a very dark chapter of history, and I know of no Muslim records of their actual death counts.

Edit: I must disagree with the person above me. He cites the total number killed by the papacy, which would include the time period from the official establishment of the Catholic faith in the Roman Empire until the Renaissance. Some of the crusades occured during and even after the Renaissance, and not everyone killed by the papacy was a Muslim in one of the crusade targets! There were many civil wars, including a few were multiple people claimed to be the pope and fought each other, resulting in the deaths of Christians.

Answer 2

their were 9 crusades over 200 years, some estimate 200,000 died.

Answer 3

I don't have details or citations, but would be surprised if it were as many as 10,000. The crusading armies simply weren't big enough to do a lot of damage -- the logistics were too expensive to support large armies.

Answer 4

I don't believe there is an accurate count. but too many

Answer 5

All done in the name of religious stupidity.

Answer 6

not as many as you would think...mostly from disease.

Look into Templar records, very accurate.

Answer 7

The crusaders did what was right. You are a filthy infadel.