Europe: The First Crusade: I: The People's Crusade - Extra History

At the coronation of Richard of England (Richard the Lionheart), there was a pogrom against English Jews, which Richard had to intercede in to stop it. Accounts of it in Latin use the word "holocaustum" to describe it. Anti-Semitism has a long history, and no one nation is innocent.

RMS Oceanic

They were still ethnically German, Jim.

Isam

There wasn't a country called Germany at the time.

Jim Arona

Due to the magnitude of the horrors of the Nazi regime it's easy to forget just how many anti-semitic atrocities were committed against the various Jewish populations of Europe prior to the holocaust. For a few examples, look up Blood Libel on wikipedia, since that was the... 'justification'... of a fair few of them.

Stephen

Nah, thank youuu! You make the show possible, I'm just giving you a tiny fraction of what you deserve for your amazing work.

Martin Ockovsky

Sooo Hitler wasn't the first German to commit genocide against the Jews, hmm..

Isam

The Crusades are such a wonderful/terrible example of history that would be hilarious(ly bad) if the events weren't actually straight up tragic.

Extra History

YAY! That's so good to hear - it means a lot to us!

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Nah, thank youuu! You help make the show possible. <3

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Thanks Kitty!

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Thank you very much! :D

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Life Lessons: Pope Urban Edition

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Seeing the new costumes each series makes me happy every single time, so I'm glad you're enjoying them too!

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I hope not, but if they do show up, at least I've been on that particular roller coaster before. :P

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I know the first three of those feature prominently in our version of this tale, so keep an eye out for them. Actually, the episode where they get introduced is my favorite episode of Extra History so far!

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I (Soraya) don't know much about the after effects of the First Crusade, so I'd love to hear about it if you ever want to expand on that!

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James mentioned in the Q&A that this is the most... "successful" Crusade. I've been watching the episodes with that perspective in mind, because if THIS is the most successful Crusade... well, yeah. Stephen and RMS have sorta covered how much of a disaster the other Crusades were, and believe me, the First Crusade is not exactly a rollicking success in itself.

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Yeah, seriously. He even looks liek a sleaze bag. >:(

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1202. After the partial success of the Third Crusade in the previous decade, Pope Innocent III calls for a new crusade to truly take back Jerusalem. Not as many people sign up for the Fourth Crusade as before, but a respectable army is assembled in Venice. There is a lot of travelling, but with the aid of a faction within it, the Crusaders reach one of the key cities of the area. While waiting on their next move, their internal ally is killed by an enemy. The crusaders have only one choice: To secure the city by sacking. They kill thousands, send many prized artifacts back west, and the capture of the city allows new Christian Kingdoms to arise. After two years of hard campaigning, Constantinople is firmly in Christian hands. Wait, what?

RMS Oceanic

Excellent first episode, EH crew! And geez, that Count Emicho is a &#$%@.

CarolineHan

Yes... The Children's Crusade was... An even worse disaster. (...Maybe. The historic record is a little muddled on what's fact and what's fiction from that mess, though I think it's clear that it was a complete mess - The gist is that a teenager got vissions of Christ telling him to raise a band of children (or possibly peasants) to go convert Muslims in the holy land to Christianity), many starved to death on the way to the Mediteranian, which they expected to /part for them/, Moses style. Some kindly seamen gave the rest and those who didn't drown on voyage (At least one of the boats sank on the way) were then sold into slavery at the other side of the crossing. At least, as I recall. And, as I said at the start, it's fairly unclear how much of this is actual history, how much is myth, and how much is conflations of different events.

Stephen

And to think this isn't even the 'crazy failed one' when looking at the Crusades.

Shakal Draconis

This whole thing was a mess from start to finish, but Western civilization would ultimately benefit from it in the long run.

Michael Jebbett

The first crusade has such a rockstar cast. People like Godfrey de bouillon, Bohemond, Tancred, Peter Bartholomew, Zengi etc etc. From The Knight of the Swan lives on!

Richard Smith

It wouldn't fit - I'm guessing your hands and head are connected to your torso :-)

Matthew Saunier

Expect to see a metric ****ton of "those" kinds of youtube comments.

Its almost like removing people from all accountability from their actions is a bad thing or something. Geez, what could possibly go wrong?!?

Christopher Pelletier

Amazing work! Looking forward to this series very much.

Mask

Your guys' costumes are just the most amazing things ever. I WANT THAT DRESS. Also, the art on this one is just overall gorgeous!

Amy Reynolds

Very much awesome! Kitty so approves!!

Kathyrne

Thank youiuuu

Martin Ockovsky

Wow, this was probably the best online depiction of the Crusades I've seen! You guys lay things out so clrarly and logically! Awesome job, thanks!

David Malinsky

If you think the First Crusade got off to a crazy start, just wait until the Fourth Crusade

RMS Oceanic