Pack 5 - the people’s crusade

Question 1

Who was pope urban really targeting with his call for the first crusade

Answer 1

Knights/nobles

Mainly peasants actually responded

Question 2

3 leaders of the people’s crusade

Answer 2

Peter the Hermit

Walter Sans Avoir

Count Emicho

Question 3

When did it set out

Answer 3

Spring 1096

Meant to: august

Question 4

How was the popes message corrupted by preachers such as peter the hermit

Answer 4

Introduced anti-Semitic elements

Promised more - all sins wiped for eternity

Spread message through all europe

Question 5

What did the peoples crusade do in the cities of Speyer, worms, and mainz in Germany

Answer 5

Massacre of Jews

Infidels

Question 6

What did Alexius do when the people’s crusade reached Constantinople

Answer 6

Sent them to Asia Minor

Wait for other knights - provides food & boats

Question 7

What happened to the leadership of the peoples crusade when they got to Anatolia

Answer 7

Disagreement, Raymond of Aguilers made leader

Split into groups

• pillaged in Anatolia

Question 8

Where and how was the peoples crusade defeated

Who by

Answer 8

Oct: wiped out near Nicaea

Turks

3000 fled, led by Geoffrey Burel