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Europe: The First Crusade: I: The People's Crusade - Extra History (Patreon)

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2015-08-07 09:59:16
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When the Pope promises absolution for anyone who joins the crusade, things quickly get out of hand.

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Europe : The First Crusade - I: The People's Crusade - Extra History

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Watch the First Crusade series! http://bit.ly/1DxBoWh Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Twitch! http://bit.y/ECTwitch ____________ In 1095CE, Pope Urban gathered the leaders of the Christian community at the Council of Clermont. Urged on by Emperor Alexius Comnenos of Constantinople, he called for a crusade to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied Jerusalem. Muslims had occupied the Holy Land for over 400 years, but the timing was politically right for the Pope and the Byzantine Emperor. Pope Urban wanted to re-unite Christendom after the anti-Pope kicked him out of Rome, while Alexius Comnenus wanted to retake the territory he had recently lost in Anatolia from the Seljuq Turks. As incentive, the Pope offered crusaders a plenary indulgence: complete forgiveness for past sins in the eyes of God and the church. It worked too well. While the official armies of the Crusade prepared, a charismatic leader named Peter the Hermit began breaching directly to the people, claiming Jesus had sent him to lead them on Crusade. Walter sans Avoir joined him in France, and a man named Count Emicho of Leiningen emulated him in Germany. Both peasant groups met with and created disaster: Walter Sans Avoir's group pillaged Belgrade while Count Emicho's group turned on the local Jewish population as an excuse to slaughter them. Thus the First Crusade began with a disastrous People's Crusade. ____________ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/1NbpIcd __________ Extra History - Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora From Swineherd to Emperor: http://bit.ly/1LYJKFX Extra Credits - Mechanics, Lore, and Heart Religion in Games: http://bit.ly/1TAQ4WL

Comments

RMS Oceanic

If you think the First Crusade got off to a crazy start, just wait until the Fourth Crusade

David Malinsky

Wow, this was probably the best online depiction of the Crusades I've seen! You guys lay things out so clrarly and logically! Awesome job, thanks!

Kathyrne

Very much awesome! Kitty so approves!!

Amy Reynolds

Your guys' costumes are just the most amazing things ever. I WANT THAT DRESS. Also, the art on this one is just overall gorgeous!

Mask

Amazing work! Looking forward to this series very much.

Christopher Pelletier

Its almost like removing people from all accountability from their actions is a bad thing or something. Geez, what could possibly go wrong?!?

Anonymous

Expect to see a metric ****ton of "those" kinds of youtube comments.

Matthew Saunier
>>696699

It wouldn't fit - I'm guessing your hands and head are connected to your torso :-)

Richard Smith

The first crusade has such a rockstar cast. People like Godfrey de bouillon, Bohemond, Tancred, Peter Bartholomew, Zengi etc etc. From The Knight of the Swan lives on!

Michael Jebbett

This whole thing was a mess from start to finish, but Western civilization would ultimately benefit from it in the long run.

Shakal Draconis

And to think this isn't even the 'crazy failed one' when looking at the Crusades.

Stephen
>>697236

Yes... The Children's Crusade was... An even worse disaster. (...Maybe. The historic record is a little muddled on what's fact and what's fiction from that mess, though I think it's clear that it was a complete mess - The gist is that a teenager got vissions of Christ telling him to raise a band of children (or possibly peasants) to go convert Muslims in the holy land to Christianity), many starved to death on the way to the Mediteranian, which they expected to /part for them/, Moses style. Some kindly seamen gave the rest and those who didn't drown on voyage (At least one of the boats sank on the way) were then sold into slavery at the other side of the crossing. At least, as I recall. And, as I said at the start, it's fairly unclear how much of this is actual history, how much is myth, and how much is conflations of different events.

CarolineHan

Excellent first episode, EH crew! And geez, that Count Emicho is a &#$%@.

RMS Oceanic
>>697236

1202. After the partial success of the Third Crusade in the previous decade, Pope Innocent III calls for a new crusade to truly take back Jerusalem. Not as many people sign up for the Fourth Crusade as before, but a respectable army is assembled in Venice. There is a lot of travelling, but with the aid of a faction within it, the Crusaders reach one of the key cities of the area. While waiting on their next move, their internal ally is killed by an enemy. The crusaders have only one choice: To secure the city by sacking. They kill thousands, send many prized artifacts back west, and the capture of the city allows new Christian Kingdoms to arise. After two years of hard campaigning, Constantinople is firmly in Christian hands. Wait, what?

ExtraCredits
>>697236

James mentioned in the Q&A that this is the most... "successful" Crusade. I've been watching the episodes with that perspective in mind, because if THIS is the most successful Crusade... well, yeah. Stephen and RMS have sorta covered how much of a disaster the other Crusades were, and believe me, the First Crusade is not exactly a rollicking success in itself.

ExtraCredits
>>697189

I (Soraya) don't know much about the after effects of the First Crusade, so I'd love to hear about it if you ever want to expand on that!

ExtraCredits
>>697082

I know the first three of those feature prominently in our version of this tale, so keep an eye out for them. Actually, the episode where they get introduced is my favorite episode of Extra History so far!

ExtraCredits
>>696920

I hope not, but if they do show up, at least I've been on that particular roller coaster before. :P

ExtraCredits
>>696699

Seeing the new costumes each series makes me happy every single time, so I'm glad you're enjoying them too!

Isam

Sooo Hitler wasn't the first German to commit genocide against the Jews, hmm..

ExtraCredits
>>696474

The Crusades are such a wonderful/terrible example of history that would be hilarious(ly bad) if the events weren't actually straight up tragic.

Martin Ockovsky
>>696535

Nah, thank youuu! You make the show possible, I'm just giving you a tiny fraction of what you deserve for your amazing work.

Stephen
>>699373

Due to the magnitude of the horrors of the Nazi regime it's easy to forget just how many anti-semitic atrocities were committed against the various Jewish populations of Europe prior to the holocaust. For a few examples, look up Blood Libel on wikipedia, since that was the... 'justification'... of a fair few of them.

RMS Oceanic
>>699373

At the coronation of Richard of England (Richard the Lionheart), there was a pogrom against English Jews, which Richard had to intercede in to stop it. Accounts of it in Latin use the word "holocaustum" to describe it. Anti-Semitism has a long history, and no one nation is innocent.