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Major routes taken during the First Crusade. At a local level, the preaching of the First Crusade ignited the Rhineland massacres perpetrated against Jews. At the end of 1095 and the beginning of 1096, months before the departure of the official crusade in August, there were attacks on Jewish communities in France and Germany.
Map of the Templar Trail from France to Jerusalem pioneered by Brandon Wilson on pilgrimage, 2006. The Templar Trail is a pilgrimage path that follows the route used in 1096 by Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and his troops during the First Crusade to liberate the city of Jerusalem.
In 1096, Robert formed an army and left Normandy to join the First Crusade to aid the Byzantine Empire against the Seljuk Turks and travel to Jerusalem. To raise money for the crusade he mortgaged his duchy to his brother William for the sum of 10,000 marks. A map of the routes of the major leaders of the First Crusade
The army first went towards Dorylaeum, following the route taken by Raymond and Stephen in 1097 during the First Crusade. But due to the protests of the Lombards, who wanted to free Bohemond and so go to the more direct, but dangerous route through Seljuk Asia Minor to Neocaesarea Then the army turned east and captured the Seljuk controlled ...
Routes of the Second Crusade. The fall of Edessa caused great consternation in Jerusalem and Western Europe, tempering the enthusiastic success of the First Crusade. Calls for a new crusade – the Second Crusade – were immediate, and was the first to be led by European kings.
Route of the First Crusade through Asia. The First Crusade march down the Mediterranean coast, from recently taken Antioch to Jerusalem, started on 13 January 1099.During the march the Crusaders encountered little resistance, as local rulers preferred to make peace with them and furnish them with supplies rather than fight, with a notable exception of the aborted siege of Arqa. [1]
A map of the routes of the major leaders of the First Crusade When he arrived at Constantinople in April 1097, he took an oath of homage to Emperor Alexios, which he demanded from all crusade leaders. [ 43 ]
English: Illustration from page 342 of The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind, the definitive edition revised and rearranged by the author, by H.G. Wells, illustrated by J. F. Horrabin, "Map to illustrate the First Crusade"