Final Flashcards
Crusading Origins
Pilgrimages- penitential journeys
Holy War- just war with holy cause
Crucified Christ- increase in devotion to suffering of Christ
Reformed Papacy- George VII called upon knights to fight
Crusade- pilgrimage & fighting as means of sanctification for sin
Battle of Manzikert
Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines
Emp. Alexius I’s plea
Requested Western military assistance against Turks
Spanish Reconquista
Gradual Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims
Council of Clermont
Call to 1st Crusade
Urban’s Speech
Jerusalem- goal of expedition
Holy Sepulcher- church in Jerusalem
Penance- Indulgence
First Crusade
1st Wave- People’s Crusade led by Peter the Hermit (destroyed in Asia Minor)
2nd Wave- Powerful French lords & Norman Knights led by papal legate (Jerusalem captured)
Feudalism
Lord & Vassal relationship Land is basis of wealth Feudum (fief)- land given to vassal for military service Knights- horse riders Vassals owed homage & fealty to lord
Manorialism
Manor- agricultural estates under control of single lord
Landlord protected peasants (wooden fortifications)
Serfs- peasants bound to land
Crusader States
Kingdom of Jerusalem
County of Tripoli
Principality of Antioch
County of Edessa
Pope Gregory VII (Investiture Controversy)
Struggle over lay investiture
Excommunicated Henry IV
Reinstates him at Canossa
Excommunicates him again for simony
Templars
Order of the Temple
Combined knighthood & monasticism
Castles throughout Crusader states & Europe
Henry IV (Holy Roman Emperor)
Rejected Pope Gregory VII’s authority
Fought against German Nobles
Second Crusade
Failed attack on Damascus that damaged treaty between Jerusalem & Damascus
Vikings
Scandinavian Germanic tribes
Invaded British Isles, W. France, Russia, & Atlantic Ocean
Bernard of Clairvaux
Preached 2nd Crusade for Pope Eugenius III
Emphasized opportunity for salvation
Magyars
Peoples from Austria
Louis VII
Led French Knights in 2nd Crusade
Married to Eleanor of Aquitaine
Three Orders
Prayers
Fighters
Peasants
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Married to Henry II & Louis VII
Controlled SW France
Conrad III
HRE who led German knights on 2nd Crusade
Saladin
Overlord of Egypt & Syria
Led jihad against Christians & captured Jerusalem during 3rd Crusade
Third Crusade
Saladin, Phillip II Augustus, Frederick I Barbarossa, & Richard the Lionhearted
Richard the Lionheart
English king who retook costal areas & made truce w/ Saladin during 3rd Crusade
Philip II Augustus
French king who fought briefly & went home on 3rd Crusade
Frederick I Barbarossa
HRE who died on journey during 3rd Crusade
Innocent III
Pope during 4th Crusade
4th Crusade
Attack on Constantinople
Taxed clergy & formalized crusade preaching
Louis IX
St. Louis
Created more efficient gov’t & courts
Died on Crusade in N. Africa
Harold Godwinson
Elected King of Medieval England by nobles
Fought against William at Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror
Defeats Harold Godwinson at Battle of Hastings
Gives land to Norman Kings after lords swear oath to him
Bt. of Hastings
Norman conquest of England
Domesday Book
King’s survey of England
Henry II
Married Eleanor of Aquitaine
Controlled most of W. France
Conflict w/ Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas Beckett)
Thomas Beckett
Archbishop of Canterbury
John “The Softsword”
The Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Affirmed traditional rights of church & nobility, limited knights power
Agricultural Revolution
Heavy plow, 3 field system, rigid horse collar
7 Sacraments
Baptism, Lord’s Supper, Penance, Confirmation, Ordination, Marriage, & Extrem Unction
Devotion to the Saints & Mary
Mary- blessed mother & queen of heaven