Why did people go on Crusade?

The Crusades were a series of religious wars spanning 200 years, but while most people understand the overarching objective of the Christian armies who travelled east, the motives for individual crusaders are much more complex.

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[PeterWarwick-ux]

"So why did so many risk disease, death and destitution to join them?"
Possibly because staying at home meant risking disease, death and destitution.

[longxiao]

"Jerusalem is easy to find, go to where the men speak Italian, then continue until they speak something else."

[bladfadsfblaadsfsadf]

I’ve always wondered if someone went just because they were bored. No religious pull, no feudal obligation, they just wanted to break up the usual 9 to 5 and go on a crusade.

[revivalist]

As a Muslim, this is my opinion and i may be wrong .
For the commoner it may have been due to religious reasons. As for the rulership, it was nothing but politics
The Seljuks were hammering the byzantines and conquering crucial cities in anatolia . Alexios realized he wouldn't face the Muslims on his own and that's why he sent a plea of help to the pope. The pope realized that this was a great opportunity to extend his sphere of influence in the east, however he had to come up with a reason to convince people to take up arms and go and fight thousands of miles away . If he presented the campaign as means to reconquer byzantine lands and hand them over to alexios, few would respond. He thereby decide to add a religious element to the campaign, mentioning Jerusalem (a city holy to the christians )telling people everything they wanted to hear e.g their sins will be expiated . So convincing was his speech that not only feudal lords but also untrained peasants set off .

[LaFonteCheVi]

The crusades are one of the many examples that demonstrate human behavior isn't based solely on geography or economics (like Marx claims). Materialism isn't the end all be all. Humans go to great lengths to fight for ideals, beliefs, morals, culture, etc.

And it is also important to note that Islam was a real threat to Christianity. Not an imagined one.

[Matthew]

At the end of the whole crusader era a truce was agreed between Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart to allow Christians Jews and Muslims freedom of the Holy Land. But after the First Crusade successfully (and brutally) conquered Jerusalem, and before the crusader defeat at The Battle Of Hattin, the Crusaders pulled off the seemingly impossible. They invaded extremely hostile foreign lands, lands they knew little of the lay of it, faced forces that massively outnumbered them and that had home advantage, BUT STILL sacked city after city and winning battle after battle while marching to Jerusalem. And after taking Jerusalem and it’s lands, they held that Kingdom for 88 YEARS!!! Absolutely incredible achievement

[patstrzeszewski]

You should do a video about the northern crusades which happened in the baltic regions

[Zawar-xzoi]

Bro this is the BEST history channel EVER!!

[benusmaximus]

A huge factor in the motivation of the First Crusade was the system of primogeniture - there were countless second and third sons of French nobles who, by law, were owed nothing through the inheritance of their father’s estates - they had to carve their own lands and destiny…

[scatalin]

Not a word of the 500 years of Muslim aggression that swiped over Christian lands of Byzantium in (North Africa, the Middle East or Anatolia), Armenia or the Visigoths is Spain and even the invasion in Frankish or Italian territory. No, the Crusaders just woke up one day and decided to go take some lands in the middle of nowhere.

[danielsantiagourtado]

Your videos on the first crusade are EPIC

[danielsantiagourtado]

Amazing series guys! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊😊

[lelandkinsella]

Christianity already had strong roots in the Middle East, North Africa and even Ethiopia BEFORE the spread of Islam. Muslim conquest had taken these places and started pushing into Christians wanted to at least take back the Holy Land.

[kimbirch]

Don't forget that these were also Holy Lands to Moslems also.
Jerusalem is their second most Holy site, after Mecca.

[seanthermes]

I remember hearing that one of the main reasons the then Pope called for Crusade was to try and end/dampen the infighting between all the small kingdoms in Europe, particularly France, as nothing unites a people like an external enemy.

[israel]

What's the name of the soundtrack playing in the background

[marksteve]

"I just want a good fight and conquest!"
That's how I saw crusades tbh.

[frgivn..]

my favorite history channel, thank you brother ❤️

[robertwaid]

IN your very brief explanation. I was initially impressed that it was so short and basically correct. To what I had ever known about the Crusades previously. Then I was reading the follow up comments. Where by I then was ahh perplexed by how screwy most people's views or past teaching's are about them? FGI: I myself had never really researched or studied them previously.

Well I'm now thinking 🤔🤔 that at the time of each of those many Crusades. That were being organized. IT was very much similar too now? And it came down too how one felt about those causes then being confronted? Also it was really basically, about who was indulging the people too support it or Not support it. IN mere fact the people were being offered choice's of what could be construed as a Free Choice of their own acceptance. Since in many cases the ruling power's couldn't install conscription's, draft's, or other forced means of gathering Army's too go & fight for them? Each person could then? Decide whether or not to go & get involved or stay where they were. This apparently is where Freedom of Choice was created or became the norm.

[danielcarlos]

What is the name of this song, is it really good?