Why did people go on Crusade?
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- Why did people go on Crusade?
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- Ekkehard of Aura: '... easy to persuade the Western Franks to leave their farms, for Gaul had been afflicted for some years by civil war, famine, and an excessive death-rate
- Colonisation
- In Western society, population growth meant problems of inheritance
- Primogeniture was adopted in Northern France
- However, Raymond of Toulouse and Godfrey of Bouillon already had power
- Successive bad harvest before 1096
- Christian infighting in the West
- Robert Guiscard was of a family of 12 sons
- + Baldwin of Boulogne in Edessa, Bohemond of Taranto, and Tancred de Hauteville
- In Western society, population growth meant problems of inheritance
- Material Gain
- Anna Comnena suggests in her text that greed of the nobles was rife, whereas the people were motivated by religion
- Cost of crusading was enormous: knights had to raise 3-4x their annual income
- To raise funds, they had to sell freehold land or gained help from their families
- Was a dangerous undertaking
- Very few crusaders actually remained in the Holy Land
- Was a dangerous undertaking
- Raised money through: Mortgaging and selling land, taxing tenants, points to families taking on burden to help individual fulfill their vows
- Therefore disposed of assets were very unlikely due to agricultural depression of the time
- To raise funds, they had to sell freehold land or gained help from their families
- Cost of crusading was enormous: knights had to raise 3-4x their annual income
- Anna Comnena suggests in her text that greed of the nobles was rife, whereas the people were motivated by religion
- Religious Zeal
- Possibility of remission of sins was a main driving force, indicated by the response to Urban's preaching
- Crusader army asked to move onto Jerusalem at the siege of Antioch Winter 1097-98
- Barefoot penitential march around Jerusalem
- Godfrey of Bouillon adopted the title 'Defender of the Holy Sepulchre' instead of King after capture of Jerusalem 1099
- Barefoot penitential march around Jerusalem
- Crusader army asked to move onto Jerusalem at the siege of Antioch Winter 1097-98
- Possibility of remission of sins was a main driving force, indicated by the response to Urban's preaching
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