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THE
OLDEN TIMES
ALL ABOUT THE BIG WORLD WE LIVE IN
EXCLUSIVE NEWS TODAY
The Start of a Holy War
Reaching the
Checkpoint
Today marks the start of the holy war started by pope urban II all three units have joined at the check point of Constantinople in April of 1096.
Over 60,000 people in total within these people are knights, surfs
[women and children included] noble men, and monks all standing outside the doors of Constantinople. The emperor invited only the principle commanders of the crusade, Duke
Godfrey, Baldwin Godfrey, and
Jeffrey Baldwin of Toront. I feel like emperor Alexies seem furious I don’t think he was expecting a catholic army as big as we are, if anything I feel he only wanted an elite team of mercenaries. But he couldn’t afford to offend us if he did where are large enough of launch a full scale attack on the entire city of Constantinople, but even at that, we were low on provisions and needed food fast. The march to here had deteriorated close to all of our food.
In Other News
Dick Butt
Still Alexies still ran the risk of losing all of the surrounding land of his empire to catholic control. But I over herd one of the emperor’s servants’ talking about an agreement where the emperor provides everything we will need for the conquest but in return we return all the land to the Byzantine empire. It doesn’t seem like we have much of an option in the current state we’re in.
Why Pope Urban II began the crusade
Why the knights where influenced What Pope Urban II was trying to accomplish with the crusades was, the same thing almost every other pope before him tried to accomplish, to gain more political power, and the opportunity came to him once he received a letter from his rival church, the eastern
Orthodox Church. They asked for nothing less than an elite team of men to help protect themselves and the holy land. That gave pope Urban II the opportunity he needed to be able to
OLDEN TIMES
ALL ABOUT THE BIG WORLD WE LIVE IN
EXCLUSIVE NEWS TODAY
The Start of a Holy War
Reaching the
Checkpoint
Today marks the start of the holy war started by pope urban II all three units have joined at the check point of Constantinople in April of 1096.
Over 60,000 people in total within these people are knights, surfs
[women and children included] noble men, and monks all standing outside the doors of Constantinople. The emperor invited only the principle commanders of the crusade, Duke
Godfrey, Baldwin Godfrey, and
Jeffrey Baldwin of Toront. I feel like emperor Alexies seem furious I don’t think he was expecting a catholic army as big as we are, if anything I feel he only wanted an elite team of mercenaries. But he couldn’t afford to offend us if he did where are large enough of launch a full scale attack on the entire city of Constantinople, but even at that, we were low on provisions and needed food fast. The march to here had deteriorated close to all of our food.
In Other News
Dick Butt
Still Alexies still ran the risk of losing all of the surrounding land of his empire to catholic control. But I over herd one of the emperor’s servants’ talking about an agreement where the emperor provides everything we will need for the conquest but in return we return all the land to the Byzantine empire. It doesn’t seem like we have much of an option in the current state we’re in.
Why Pope Urban II began the crusade
Why the knights where influenced What Pope Urban II was trying to accomplish with the crusades was, the same thing almost every other pope before him tried to accomplish, to gain more political power, and the opportunity came to him once he received a letter from his rival church, the eastern
Orthodox Church. They asked for nothing less than an elite team of men to help protect themselves and the holy land. That gave pope Urban II the opportunity he needed to be able to