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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious and military campaigns, primarily initiated by Western European powers, with the overarching goal of reclaiming the Holy Land from Muslim control.

Crusades

Crusades

Fourth Crusade

The crusade dealt an irrevocable blow to the Byzantine Empire, contributing to its decline and fall as all the unstable governments in the region, the Sack of Constantinople, and the thousands of deaths had left the region depleted of soldiers, resources, people, and money which left the region vulnerable to attack
Alexios V Doukas
Alexios III Angelos
Alexios IV Angelos
Conon de Béthune
Martin of Pairis
Conrad of Halberstadt
Hugh IV of Saint-Pol
Louis of Blois
Baldwin of Flanders
Theobald III of Champagne
Enrico Dandolo
Boniface of Montferrat
To recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate

Third Crusade

Allowed the Christians to maintain considerable states in Cyprus and on the Syrian coast, restoring the Kingdom of Jerusalem on a narrow strip from Tyre to Jaffa
Holy Roman emperor Frederick I
Philip II of France
Richard I of England
To reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187

Second Crusade

It would ultimately have a key influence on the fall of Jerusalem and give rise to the Third Crusade at the end of the 12th century
Emperor Conrad III of Germany
King Louis VII of France
Fight the pagan Wends in the Baltic Sea
Fight Muslims in Spain
Restore Edessa

First Crusade

Effects
The Recapture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 CE
People Involved
Bohemond of Taranto

And his Nephew Tancred

Hugh of Vermandois
Godfrey of Bouillon
Raymond of Saint-Gilles
Goals/Purposes
commanding the Christian warriors of western Europe to take up arms against perceived enemies in the east, in order to reclaim the Holy Land