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The First Crusade!



This crusade lasted from 1096 all the way to 1099. About 3,000 different Christian Pilgrims in Jerusalem. Count Raymond of Toulouse lead people from Provence in southern France. Godfrey of Bouillon and Baldwin, his brother, lead French and Germans from the Rhinelands. Normandy send William the Conqueror's oldest son, Robert in to battle. Bohemond, a son of Robert Guiscard, and his nephew Tancred, led Normans from Italy and Sicily. Preachers urged people to go to Jerusalem and fight for it. Peter the Hermit, was a monk who made most of France get aroused. He got alot of poor men, women, and children to go to the Holy land. They called this crusade the People's Crusade. Alot of the people died because they never had training, didnt have weapons, and didnt have any discipline. The surviving people were sent to Asia Minor, and they were practically all slaughtered there. The daughter of Alexius wrote a book about the crusades and her father.