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Crusading movement. The church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This is a site of Christian pilgrimage built where Christian Roman authorities pinpointed the purported location of Jesus' burial and resurrection in Jerusalem in 325. [ 1] One of the objectives of the Crusades was to free the Holy Sepulchre from Muslim control.
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years, by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover ...
Religion. Roman Catholic. Bohemond I of Antioch ( c. 1054 – 5 or 7 March 1111), [ 1] also known as Bohemond of Taranto or Bohemond of Hauteville, was the prince of Taranto from 1089 to 1111 and the prince of Antioch from 1098 to 1111. [ 2] He was a leader of the First Crusade, leading a contingent of Normans on the quest eastward.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun ...
The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in succession. The first siege, by the crusaders against the city held by the Seljuk Empire, lasted from 20 October 1097 [ 10] to 3 June 1098. The second siege, of the crusader-held city by a Seljuk ...
v. t. e. The Siege of Jerusalem marked the successful end of the First Crusade, whose objective was the recovery of the city of Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from Islamic control. The five-week siege began on 7 June 1099 and was carried out by the Christian forces of Western Europe mobilized by Pope Urban II after the Council ...
Formerly called. Campus Crusade for Christ International. Cru (until 2011 known as Campus Crusade for Christ —informally "Campus Crusade" or simply "Crusade"—or CCC) is an interdenominational Christian parachurch organization. [ 1] It was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright and Vonette Zachary Bright.
Siege of Zara. / 44.11417°N 15.22778°E / 44.11417; 15.22778. The Siege of Zara or Siege of Zadar ( Croatian: Opsada Zadra; Hungarian: Zára ostroma; 10–24 November 1202) was the first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders.