A CRUSADING KNIGHT

A Crusading Knight

A Crusading Knight

Dear Family,

We were on a journey of expansion. We reached Jerusalem and took it. Now we were at Byzantium. The Byzantine monarch, Alexius Commenus searched help from Pope Urban II. He had glimpsed the battling ability of Europe, and asked the Pope to help him in his time of need. The Pope acquiesced, and after a assembly in Aurillac France, he provided a speech to notify every person of the need to rise up in arms against the infidel. The war had begun. Nobles took advantage of this chance by construction their own detachments and ...