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Urban II preaching at the Council of Clermont — 14th-century manuscript (BnF)
Urban II preaching at the Council of Clermont — 14th-century manuscript (BnF)

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Pope Urban II

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

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    1095Council of Clermontkey figure

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

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  • Alexios I Komnenos1057 – 1118

    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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  • 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