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Europe: First Crusade - II: Peter the Hermit - Extra History (Patreon)

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2015-08-14 11:11:17
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Things can't go any worse for the People's Crusade than they did with Walter sans Avoir and Emicho, right? ...Right?

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Europe: The First Crusade - II: Peter the Hermit - 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 ____________ Emicho of Leiningen and Walters sans Avoir certainly made a mark, but the largest group in the People's Crusade was led by Peter the Hermit. To gain passage through Hungary, they swore an oath not to destroy anything, but the lack of real leadership for their group became clear when they very quickly started a market brawl, stormed the local citadel, then fled to Belgrade and immediately repeated their aggression by turning on the Byzantine troops sent to keep them in line. At the city of Niŝ, the Byzantine troops pinned them down and slaughtered a quarter of the entire crusading "army." The remainder fled to Constantinople and secured passage into Turkey, but the group fractured from within and became two separate factions, with Peter leading one and a man named Reinald leading the other. Both factions competed for bragging rights, committing horrible atrocities to outdo each other. One group actually managed to siege a castle, but it had no water supply, so they were easily starved out by the Turks. The Turks, however, spread a rumor that this group had actually gone on to capture the capitol city, and the remaining crusaders set out to join what they thought would be a loot extravaganza. Instead, they ran into a Turkish ambush that left only 3,000 of their 20,000 soldiers alive. Now led by Geoffrey Burel, they retreated to Constantinople. ____________ 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 - Four New Approaches to War Games Returning to WWII: http://bit.ly/1NukEiR

Comments

Brett

Wake up. See update. Instant happiness.

RMS Oceanic

Battle of Cannae: "And thus the First Crusade began." Teutoburg Forest: "And thus the First Crusade began." South Sea Bubble: "And thus the First Crusade began." Nearly any Western Front WW1 offensive: "And thus the First Crusade began." That time on the Apprentice where they tried to buy a Kosher chicken from a Muslim Butcher: "And thus the First Crusade began."

Farzad Mansouri

No matter how many times I watch it I can't help but want to laugh and cry at this absurd beginning to the first crusade.

Murabito

wow the first crusade was such a total mess, do you even strategy? face palm.

Nessf

That couldn't have been a much worse mess if they had been TRYING to mess everything up.

skyenet

So many facepalm-worthy moments.

Michael Waisfeld

I guess i'll put this on my playlist right after the Terry Jones version

Samson

How many episodes are going to be in this series?

Michael Jebbett

Ya gotta wonder how much motivation faith was motivation for these early Crusaders, and how much it was simply trying to get by day to day/looking to make a better life for themselves.

Irall

Well,that definitly make us human look like moron......

Hung Nguyen

I know they have different morals back in the medieval ages, but this whole episode seems to be "the height of stupidity". Like what the hell were they thinking?

Stephen
>>714085

...The first Crusade is usually considered to have gone the best out of the bunch, as I recall...

Teollinc

well that was something my history class ignored. At least the crusade is going to be starting now! No more peasants looting towns because they can... I hope

Nessf
>>714085

I know. It's TERRIFYING that this is the one that went "well".

Harrison Brussel

Well that must have been an awkward evening for the pope...

Jason Youngberg

Do we have a number better than "thousands" or "tens of thousands"?

Jason Youngberg
>>714876

Of course it was ignored. You can't have Christians coming off as the bad guys. That's oppression! That happened in my high school history class. The teacher tried to talk about the slaughter of Jews and several Catholic students objected to how their faith was being "slandered" and how it was all the fault of the Muslims. Since this happened in the 80s with the rise of the Moral Majority, the teacher had to skip that part. The first two videos in this series filled in some of the gaps left behind.

noah

Well that was a total disaster. the lack of training amongst the civilian population seemed to be the cause. Kind of reminds me of mass hysteria. Only with out the panic.

ExtraCredits
>>715297

I don't know if James has access to them, but I'm afraid I do not! I wouldn't be surprised if that information exists at the end of a research tunnel, though.

ExtraCredits
>>714640

Dehumanization of other people and allowing yourself to think of them as "the enemy" rather than *people* has been the unfortunate source of some terrible things. :\

ExtraCredits
>>714464

It's a good question! There's a ton of debate among historians about the likely motives of the Crusaders.

KvaGram

I can't help but laugh. the ironic humor is just too massive.

Stuart Gorman
>>715297

The sizes of medieval armies are notoriously difficult to accurately determine. Accurate records for the supplying and recruitment of armies very rarely survive if they were even made in the first place. For the Crusades there are very good records for many of the noble Crusaders since they usually entered into formal contracts with the church that guaranteed protection for their lands while they were away. Noble warriors only make up a fraction of the Crusader army, especially for the First Crusade, so it's hard to reliably determine how large the army would have been based on these records alone. Usually historians are left with the numbers reported in chronicle accounts of the events. These are notoriously unreliable (although some chroniclers are better than others) but when combined with what accurate records we do have they can usually be worked down to a rough ballpark figure. In general, though, this figure is in the thousands and narrowing it down further is usually impossible.

paul staber

On the up side the random gang of raiders will have given the Muslims an unreallisticly low expectation for the competency of the real crusaders.

CarolineHan

Why, peasants? Why did you do all these horrible things? I understand feeling trapped by your lot and wanting to go an a adventure (read: crusade) to take a break from your daily toil, but .... >_<

Martin Ockovsky

Great one, thank you <3 The drawing of the Peter is just absolutely amazing :D