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People's peasants crusade
- Jewish perspective
- Peasants attacked wealthy Jewish
communities who were seen as 'infidels' on a
par with Muslims
- Speyer, Mainz,Treyer and
Cologne
- Many were either slaughtered or committed
suicide to avoid forced conversion in the towns
Mainz, Worms and Prague
- 1000 killed themselves
- Prague
- Not part of Urbans aim
- Motivations were greed and revenge
- Muslim perspective
- In July 1096 KiliJ Arslan learned that 1000 of
Franks were approaching constantinople
- He was confused by the picture painted by the
informants as there were thousands of women
and children in rags
- Aug they crossed for the Borsphorus
- Sept they took Xerigordon
- trapped as water supplies lay outside and Franks sealed off access to the water
- Arslan expected the Franks at Civot to come to their aid and so set a trap
- At Dawn 21st Oct 1096 the franks left their camp
- Captured, many were sold to the slave
market, others were exterminated
- Due to Failure of the Peasants Crusade
- Arslan ignored the information about the
arrival of a fresh group of Franks from
Constantinople
- Went to east to fight Damishmeds
- Byzantium prespective
- Alexius was expecting for a body of Frankish mercenaries
- But got 'beyond what he could have expected' tens of
thousands of strong warriors and noncobatants, men
and woman, rich and poor
- highly motivated by glory
- Fired by tireless preaching at the papal
and popular levels bound by oaths of
devotion and fealty
- Massive impact of Alexius' letter
- Christian perspective
- Poorly coordinated and undisciplined
- Had to live off the
land they passed
through
- The Danube region and the
Balklans were looted as a result
of this
- The armies met outside Constantinople and
Alexius had to act due to plundering
- He ferried them off to the Bosphurus in Aug 1096
- resulted in the massacre of half the people's crusade,
mostly composed of German and Italian at Ncea
- The other half,mostly French, were decoyed into an ambush and slaughtered
- NO ONE made it to the holy land
- Peter the Hermit was absent when they got destroyed
- Forgot to add
- After sailing through the Bosphorus Peter pleased that they wait for main crusading army.
- He was ignored
- Crusading army divided into two groups.
- German
- Avoided the city of Nicea and occupied the fortress of Xerigordan
- Turkish army caught up with them
- All who were unwilling to convert to Muslim were massacred
- Surviving Crusaders regrouped at Civot under
the leadership of Geoffrey Burel
- Two hours later they were ambushed and destroyed by Kilij
- Mixed German and Italian
- Elected Rainault as their leader
- Marched to Nicea
- They were destroyed by Kilij Arslan