Daily Medieval

When the main body of the First Crusade reached the Holy Land, Peter the Hermit joined them as a member of the council that made decisions...

After the terrible situation (for the People's Crusade ) at Xerigordos , where several thousand German Crusaders were converted to Islam...

After the Rhineland Massacres, the People's Crusade continued from Cologne toward the Holy Land. Some took boats down the Danube. Some m...

After Peter the Hermit gathered his followers in Cologne, Germany, on Holy Saturday in 1096 (12 April), they prepared to go south and event...

After the announcement of the First Crusade , a French Roman Catholic priest from Amiens named Pierre took it upon himself to preach the Cru...

It can be argued that the First Crusade, announced in 1095, could not or would not feasibly have been undertaken much earlier than the end o...