Crusades

Crusades

1. Provenance

   • Nature
   • Origin
   • Purpose
   • audience
   • message
   • balance
   • Tone
   • Attitude

2. Authors of sources

   • Galbert de Bruges
     • Flemish Cleric and Chronicler
   • Baldric of Bourgueil
     • An abbot, wrote from EWT
   • Gibert of Nogent
     • Benedictine historian, knew the crusaders personally and talked to them about their experiences
   • Albert of Aachen
     • Contemporary Historian, never went on the Crusades but relied on interviews with returning crusaders
   • Anna Comnena
     • Alexius' daughter, Not an eye witness, bad relations with father but brought up on crusader propaganda
   • Raymond of Aguilers
     • A Chronicler, went on the crusades as chaplain to Raymond IV of Toulouse
   • William of Tyre
     • Grew up in Jerusalem at the height of the kingdom, tutor of Baldwin IV (the future king of Jerusalem
   • Fulcher of Chartes
     • Was a priest that went on the crusades, served Baldwin I of Jerusalem and wrote a chronicle of the crusade, wants to get people to come join the Holy land
   • Bernard of Clairvaux
     • Monk that was sainted, very invested in religion
   • Robert the monk
     • Was a chronicler of the First crusade although he did not participated, gave an account of the council of Clermont
   • Walter the Chancellor
     • A French crusader and author

3. build up to the crusades

   • Papacy
   • Investiture contest
   • events that sparked
   • motives for launching
   • who went on the crusade
   • motives for going
   • primogeniture
   • important people on the crusades
   • people's crusade
   • Alexius
   • Muslim world

4. aftermath

   • Muslim response
   • After Jerusalem
   • Kings of jerusalem
   • Principality of Antioch
   • The county of Edessa
   • the county of Tripoli
   • the country governed
   • Family links to the west
   • Muslim unity
   • Castles
   • Military orders

5. the crusade

   • Nicea
   • Dorylaeum
   • Edessa
   • Antioch
   • Holy Lance
   • Bohemond's
   • Relations with Byzantium
   • papacy losing control of the crusades
   • Latin East
   • Jerusalem