People's Crusade

(noun)

An expedition seen as the prelude to the First Crusade that lasted roughly six months, from April to October 1096, and was led mostly by peasants.

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Examples of People's Crusade in the following topics:

  • The First Crusade

    • The First Crusade (1095–1099), called for by Pope Urban II, was the first of a number of crusades intended to recapture the Holy Lands.
    • Pope Urban II planned the departure of the crusade for August 15, 1096; before this, a number of unexpected bands of peasants and low-ranking knights organized and set off for Jerusalem on their own, on an expedition known as the People's Crusade, led by a monk named Peter the Hermit.
    • At the end of June, the Crusaders marched on through Anatolia.
    • The Crusaders resolved to take the city by assault.
    • An illustration showing the defeat of the People's Crusade by the Turks.

  • Chairman Mao and the People's Republic

  • The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

    • The People's Party, also known as the "Populists Party", was a short-lived political party in the United States, established in 1891 during the Populist movement.
    • Based among poor, white, cotton farmers in the South (especially North Carolina, Alabama, and Texas) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the plains states (especially Kansas and Nebraska), it represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to banks, railroads, and elites generally.

  • The Fourth Crusade

    • As a result of the First Crusade, four primary Crusader states were created: the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, and the County of Tripoli.
    • Under the papacies of Calixtus II, Honorius II, Eugenius III, and Innocent II, smaller-scale crusading continued around the Crusader states in the early 12th century.
    • On June 23, 1203, the main Crusader fleet reached Constantinople.
    • After the failure of the Fourth Crusade to hold Constantinople or reach Jerusalem, Innocent III launched the first crusade against heretics, the Albigensian Crusade, against the Cathars in France and the County of Toulouse.
    • Around this time, popularity and energy for the Crusades declined.

  • The Third Crusade

    • The Third Crusade (1189–1192), also known as The Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin.
    • The successes of the Third Crusade allowed the Crusaders to maintain considerable states in Cyprus and on the Syrian coast.
    • The Siege of Acre was one of the first confrontations of the Third Crusade, and a key victory for the Crusaders but a serious defeat for Saladin, who had hoped to destroy the whole of the Crusader kingdom.
    • In addition, unlike the First Crusade, in the Second and Third Crusades kings led Crusaders into battle.
    • Despite the agreement in the Third Crusade, the failure to overtake Jerusalem led to still another crusade soon after.

  • The Second Crusade

    • The Second Crusade (1147–1149) was the second major crusade launched against Islam by Catholic Europe, started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa founded in the First Crusade; it was largely a failure for the Europeans.
    • The Second Crusade (1147–1149) was the second major crusade launched from Europe as a Catholic holy war against Islam.
    • The Crusade in the east was a failure for the Crusaders and a great victory for the Muslims.
    • The only Christian success of the Second Crusade came to a combined force of 13,000 Flemish, Frisian, Norman, English, Scottish, and German Crusaders in 1147.
    • At Worms, Louis joined with crusaders from Normandy and England.

  • Centrality of experience

    • People's assumptions are generally constructed by their interpretation of experience.

  • Latino Rights

    • One of the founding members of the Chicano Movement, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, launched the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1965 to provide jobs, legal services, and healthcare for Mexican Americans.
    • Elsewhere, Reies López Tijerina fought for years to reclaim lost and illegally expropriated ancestral lands in New Mexico; he was one of the co-sponsors of the Poor People’s March on Washington in 1967.

  • The Populist Movement

    • The Populist Party, also known as the "People's Party," was a short-lived political party in the United States established in 1891 during the Populist movement.
    • Based among poor, white cotton farmers in the South (especially in North Carolina, Alabama, and Texas) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the plains states (especially in Kansas and Nebraska), the party represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to banks, railroads, and elites in general.

  • Crisis and Fragmentation

    • To the Byzantines the crusaders were dirty, uneducated brutes.
    • To the crusaders, the Byzantines were untrustworthy, over-pampered schemers.
    • The Byzantines and crusaders agreed that whatever formerly Byzantine lands the crusaders recaptured from the Turks would be returned to Byzantine control.
    • The crusaders went back on this agreement, however, and took the lands for themselves.
    • The crusaders parceled out Byzantine lands among themselves.