Question

What was the course of the crusades?

Answer 1

I can answer this...it'll be long though, is that okay?

Answer 2

I am trying to finish something up and also do you need the whole crusade, or a specific crusade? [like the 1st, 2nd, etc...]

Answer 3

lol all of them please :)

Answer 4

How the Crusades Begun...
In response to Pope Urban II’s call to arms, a wave of religious enthusiasm swept across Europe. European
lords and knights, however, did not move as quickly as others. In 1096, a French monk named Peter the Hermit pulled together a disorganized army of peasants and soldiers with his fiery sermons. Together, they plunged eastward toward Constantinople in what came to be known as the People’s Crusade. Peter stayed behind in Constantinople as his army crossed over into Anatolia. Unfortunately, the People’s Crusade did not turn out well. Nearly all of the crusaders were killed by Turkish soldiers.
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It’s important to remember that what we call the Crusades was not a single army, war, movement, or effort. Rather, the series of events, battles, and movements that are collectively called the Crusades took place over the course of nearly 200 years. Each new wave of excited and ambitious Crusaders was led by different figures with different goals that approached the Holy Land by different ways and means. Some succeeded, others just barely survived, and still others failed miserably.

Altogether, most historians account for eight Crusades, but most of the action took place in the first four.
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The First Crusade (1096 - 1099)
The first Crusaders, led by Godfrey of Bouillon and other French lords, marched from Constantinople through lands held by the Seljuk Turks to Antioch. Along the way, they battled isolated Turkic forces, and Godfrey’s brother Baldwin stopped to set up the first Crusader State at Edessa. After a long siege, the Crusaders captured Antioch as well. Disagreements over the rule of Antioch slowed their progress and split their forces, however, and it was not until August 1098 that the Crusaders reached Jerusalem. By then, Jerusalem had come again under the rule of Muslim Arabs known as the Fatimids, who ruled from Egypt. The Crusaders laid siege to Jerusalem for more than a month before its keepers surrendered. On Godfrey’s death, Baldwin left Edessa and became the first king of the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem. Although many stayed behind to defend European rule of the Holy Land, most of the Crusaders who had survived the expedition returned home.

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The Second Crusade (1147-1149)
In the years following the First Crusade, European lords worked to secure their rule over the Crusader States. Meanwhile, back in Europe, the Holy Orders of knights had begun to rise. When Muslim forces regrouped and attacked Edessa, three such orders-the Teutonic Knights, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Knights Templar-rode forth under the banner of the Second Crusade. They did not go alone. This time, the fervor of the Crusades reached to the highest levels of Europe. Two monarchs, King Louis VII of France and Emperor Conrad III of Germany, pledged themselves to the cause and led armies to the Holy Land. However, the Crusaders turned their sights on Damascus, rather than Edessa, and their poorly organized attack resulted in failure. Again, many Crusaders returned home, while those who remained focused on defending the Kingdom of Jerusalem while Muslim forces became more powerful and encircled them.

The Third Crusade (1187-1192)
In the mid-12th century, the Turkic ruler Saladin rose to lead the Seljuks and succeeded in uniting the fragmented Muslim armies of Southwest Asia and North Africa. To Saladin, the Christian armies were the infidels that had to be evicted. When Saladin’s forces took Jerusalem, the call went out across Europe to launch another crusade. Three kings came forward-Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, King Phillip II of France, and King Richard I, later known as Richard the Lionheart, of England. However, this crusade achieved little. Frederick Barbarossa died along the way, and Phillip returned to Europe after the capture of Acre in 1191. Only Richard the Lionheart remained to lead the Christian armies. Richard led many campaigns against Jerusalem and struck up a curious relationship with his foe, Saladin, in the process. However, he failed to retake the city. In 1192, Richard and Saladin reached a truce. According to this peace treaty, Saladin’s Muslim empire kept control of Jerusalem but granted Christians the right to visit the city and their shrines. The Crusaders kept control of their lands north of the city of Jaffa.

The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)
****After the Third Crusade, the Crusaders never really captured the momentum-or the power-that they had had before.
In 1198, Pope Innocent III called for a new Crusade, more out of a desire to elevate the papacy than in response to events in the Holy Land. This Crusade failed to rouse any monarchs. Led largely by French knights, the Crusade set out for the Holy Land in 1202 only to be distracted by Venetian lords who convinced them to capture the wealth and splendor of Eastern Orthodox Constantinople instead. So, rather than retake the Holy Land from Muslim rule, the Fourth Crusade sacked the capital of the Byzantine Empire, a Christian city. However, the Crusaders’ control of Constantinople lasted less than a century. The major accomplishment of this Crusade proved to be weakening the Byzantines enough that they could no longer hold off Muslim expansion.

The Final Crusades (1217-1272)
The Crusades that took place after the Fourth Crusade were disorganized military efforts with limited support. In addition to several more attempts on the Holy Land, the Holy Orders of Europe had gained in power and launched several military campaigns within Europe itself. The Fifth Crusade, led by King Andrew II of Hungary, went first to the Holy Land and then to Egypt, but failed. Angry at the outcome of the Fifth Crusade,
Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire led the Sixth Crusade, which succeeded in reclaiming the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1228. However, the kingdom was plagued by civil war that made it vulnerable to Muslim attack. After 1244, Jerusalem would never again fall under Christian rule-but that did not stop the Crusaders from trying.
King Louis IX of France led two more expeditions, grouped together as the Seventh Crusade, which failed to make any territorial gains. The last stronghold of Christendom in the Holy Land, Acre, fell to the Mamluk Empire in 1291.

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Answer 5

I have to go now...but I hope this helps. cx