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...

When Huy became the first municipality north of the Alps to be granted city rights , its right to some self-governance meant Conon, Count o...

After the "finding" of the Holy Lance , the Crusaders in Antioch felt emboldened to break the siege around the city by Kerbogha, t...

When the First Crusade was on their way to free the Holy land from the "infidel," they passed through Constantinople and asked for...

To be thorough: there was more to the plan. Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium had requested help from the pope against invading Turks, and the ...