How Did The Crusaders Were A Threat To Medieval Society?

In this essay I am going to discuss how Crusaders were a threat to the medieval society. Crusaders were dangerous. There is not a lot these men wouldn't do, they thought it was perfectly acceptable to butcher an estimated one million people because it was “what god would have wanted.” When I was revising this topic, I actually had to take breaks between reading my book “Perfect Heresy” because what actually went on during the years 1209-1229 were abominable. The Crusaders brought fear across the land. It wasn't just Albignesian people being murdered, there were “innocent" people of their own religion too. They didn't care, this is unbelievably dangerous to Medieval society especially since the death toll was so high.

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The first war whic lasted from 1209 to 1215, contained an array of victories for the crusaders in Languedoc in France. The Crusaders used sever violence in the midst of this violence a whole town, named Béziers was slaughtered To show just how dangerous the extermination was was, when Arnaud Arnaury, head of the Cistercian order of monks, was asked by the leaders of the crusade how they would know who to kill,how would they know if they were Christian or Albigensian? He replied “Kill them all god will know his own” The crusaders arrived in Béziers on the 21st of July 1209. Under the command of Arnaud Arnaury they began to capture the city, demanding the Cathars to surrender and recant. They refused. The entire population was crushed and the city was burned to the ground. The estimation of people killed was between 15,000 and 20,000. The next main target was Carcassonne which was a well fortified but very vulnerable city. The city was over flowing with refugees. The crusaders arrived on the 1st of August 1209. The city didn't last very long by the middle of August the crusaders cut off the water supply. After this Raymond Roger sought out negotiation under a flag of truce. Despite the rules of chivilary, which would have allowed him to return to his castle, he was captured and imprisoned. He died in his own dungeon and probably not due to natural causes. Carcassonne then surrendered on the 15th of August. They had to leave
An estmiated of one million were murdered, religious beliefs were slaughtered, free speech, thought and/ or opinion was simply not allowed and that isn't right for there to be a just country. The church had no heart for people with a different strange religion and thought it would be best to keep control by killing many uninvolved and virtuous people. The Cathars tried to stand up for themselves but their numbers were too low, while there were many ruthless crusaders who thought they were getting to heaven by accepting these jobs. The church lied to the men and got them to do hideous acts with false promises. The crusaders were maleovent because of this and came off as life threatening and intimidating for medieval