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Gold hyperpyron of Alexios I (Moscow Kremlin Museums)
Gold hyperpyron of Alexios I (Moscow Kremlin Museums)

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Person1057 – 1118

Alexios I Komnenos

Also called: Alexius I Comnenus

Byzantine emperor (r. 1081–1118) whose appeal to the pope for Western soldiers against the Seljuks unexpectedly set off the Crusades

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2 related events

  1. 1
    1095Council of Clermontrelated figure

    At the Council of Clermont Pope Urban II called on Christians to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule, setting the crusading movement in motion.

  2. 2
    1096People’s Crusaderelated figure

    Ahead of the knights’ armies, tens of thousands of poor people stirred by Peter the Hermit set out for the Holy Land, only to be destroyed by the Seljuks in Asia Minor in October 1096.

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  • Pope Urban II1035 – 1099

    Pope (r. 1088–1099) who launched the First Crusade with his call at the Council of Clermont in 1095

  • Peter the Hermit1050 – 1115

    Preacher from Amiens who in 1096 led the People’s Crusade of the poor toward the Holy Land ahead of the knights

Themes this person appears in

  • The Crusades1095 – 1291

    From the Council of Clermont to the fall of Acre — two centuries of war between Latin Europe and the Islamic world over the Holy Land