HISTORY - Why did people participate in the 3rd crusade?

• The Pope issued a papal bull to ask people to go on crusade
• Many influential people preached across the countries
• Joscius of Tyre preached in France 
• Full remission of all confessed sins
• Those who died on campaign were promised eternal life
• Goods & families would be under the protection of the Church
• Many people wanted to recover the true cross
• Saladin was named as the Devil
• The Latin Franks should amend their sins from not repenting after the loss of Edessa
• They must please God by engaging with the enemy in battle
• Objective = Jerusalem due to it being captured by Saladin -> increased religious zeal
• Ultimate aim - end up at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
• Religious zeal is shown by how Frederick Barbarossa organises and leads his army 

• People who went on crusade would be free from debt and insurance claims on their land and possible lawsuits whilst on crusade
• Guy has lost Jerusalem to Saladin -> now Guy has no cities to his name whereas Conrad of Montferrat has Tyre
• Possible motive? = land and booty
• Conrad (and many knights and nobles, especially those who were landless younger sons) possibly motivated by the kingship of Jerusalem or other land grab titles
• Conrad forcefully married to Isabella (sister of Baldwin IV) so that he can have a claim to the throne. Guy's claim decreases as all of his daughters and Sybilla die of a disease
• SALADIN TITHE -> Richard of Lionheart and Philip II. Any knight who won't join them must pay 10% towards moveable goods towards the crusade

Feudal ties and family connections

• 80,000 people followed Frederick Barbarossa
• Some people may have gone because of family history (e.g. the Angevin Empire)

• Philip II and Richard Lionheart took the cross at the same time and planned to travel together so neither could take the other's land
• Expansion of political control over people who are not your vassals but fight for you and you pay them (Henry II's main motive)