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The People's Crusade, also known as the Peasant's Crusade, preceded the First Crusade. and was led by Peter the Hermit as well as a number of other colorful characters. The crusade accomplished little other that the slaughter of Jews and those in the army. The major players were Peter and his deputy Walter Sans-Avoir. Most of the army were ...
The army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles was one of the first to be formed after Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade. Raymond formed a Provençal army and left his County of Toulouse in October 1096, traveling over the land route. He was the only leader of a major army that did not swear an oath of fealty to Byzantine emperor Alexius I Komnenos.
The Crusader armies crossed over into Asia Minor during the first half of 1097, where they were joined by Peter the Hermit and the remainder of his relatively small army. In addition, Alexios also sent two of his generals, Manuel Boutoumites and Tatikios , to assist the crusaders.
The armies of Bohemond of Taranto, formed in 1097, include a major component of the First Crusade.He is regarded as the real leader of the First Crusade. He formed a second army in 1107 to defend Antioch but instead used it to attack the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, resulting in the Treaty of Devol, codifying Bohemond’s defeat.
Unlike some parts of the Crusade Cycle, the Chanson des Chétifs has no basis in historical reality. It survives largely in thirteenth-century manuscripts; according to Carol Sweetenham, "there are no precise indications for dating either the Chétifs or the Jérusalem, but given the manuscript tradition an assumption of early thirteenth century would not be too wide of the mark for either".
Armies of Stephen of Blois on the First Crusade and the Crusade of 1101; Army of Godfrey of Bouillon; Army of Hugh the Great on the First Crusade; Army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles; Army of Robert Curthose on the First Crusade; Army of Robert II of Flanders on the First Crusade
The Seljuk–Crusader war began when the First Crusade wrested territory from the Seljuk Turks during the Siege of Nicaea in 1097 and lasted until 1128 when Zengi became atabeg of Aleppo. At the latter date, the chief threat to the Crusaders from the east and north became the Zengids. The conflict was generally fought between European Crusaders ...
The Crusade song was not confined to the topic of the Latin East, but could concern the Reconquista in Spain, the Albigensian Crusade in Languedoc, or the political crusades in Italy. The first Crusade to be accompanied by songs, none of which survive, was the Crusade of 1101 , of which William IX of Aquitaine wrote, according to Orderic Vitalis .