Soucres

Question 1

What was the Gesta Frankorum?

Who criticised this?

Answer 1

An eye witness account of the first crusade

Robert the Monk was the critical of the text’s structure, believing it to be poorly written

Question 2

What did Simon Parsons suggest of the Gesta Frankorum?

Answer 2

The text wasn’t written until after the first crusade, and was formed by a collection of stories and memories from my,triple authors

Question 3

Name three papal documents which offered support through tax exemptions to the Templars

Answer 3

Omele Datum 1139

Milities Templi 1145

Militia Dei 1146

Question 4

Name two accounts on the dangers of making pilgrimage to the holy land

Answer 4

Seawolf, 1102

Abbot Daniel, 1107

Question 5

Name the influential book which promoted the new military order

Who wrote it?

Answer 5

In Praise of the New knighthood

Bernard of Clairvoux

Question 6

Which charter was issued to free ‘our Jerusalem in Eastern Europe?

Name one of the warriors of north western Germany the book was targeting

Answer 6

Magdeburg Charter

Count Robert II of Flanders

Question 7

Which papal encyclical granted crusader status to expeditions in the Baltic?

Who issued it?

Answer 7

Divina Dispensatione

Pope Eugenius III

Question 8

List some distinctive features of the papal encyclical Quia Maior

Answer 8

Emotive language in the opening

Full remission of sins to those who took part in the crusade or assisted the expedition though providing men or wealth

Goods and loans frozen under and under Church protection

• religious communities expected to raise a contingent of fighting men and fund them for three years