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The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising ...

A 19th century engraving of a scene in Claremont, France shows Pope Urban II standing behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...

During the Crusades, St. Francis befriended a Muslim ... After being elected, a pope chooses a name to adopt for his papacy. Jorge Mario Bergoglio picked Francis in 2013. “He explained it ...

The fall of Edessa (1144) triggered the Second Crusade, as Pope Eugenius III called for war. Led by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, Crusader armies marched east, clashing with the ...