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The First Crusade: The Bloody Road to Jerusalem (1/2)

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was unlike anything ever seen before. The Pope offered spiritual salvation to those willing to go east to aid their fellow Christians in a holy war, and help liberate Jerusalem from Muslim rule. Knights and peasants alike signed up in their thousands, leading to the disastrous People's, or Peasants', Crusade, then to a much more organised and powerful Princes' Crusade. Their forces gathered at Constantinople, where they made an uneasy alliance with Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus. Entering Anatolia, they helped to win back the city of Nicaea, then won a decisive but hard-fought victory at Dorlyaeum, before marching on the great city of Antioch... Ver este video en español    • La Primera Cruzada - Parte 1 de 2   Visit our online bookshop to find great books on this and other topics: UK site - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/epichist... US site - https://bookshop.org/shop/epichistorytv As a bookshop.org affiliate we earn from qualifying purchases while donating 10% of sales to support independent bookshops! Produced in partnership with Osprey Publishing https://ospreypublishing.com/ Campaign: The First Crusade 1096–99 https://ospreypublishing.com/the-firs... Essential Histories: The Crusades https://ospreypublishing.com/the-crus... The Armies of Islam 7th–11th Centuries https://ospreypublishing.com/the-armi... Armies of the Crusades https://ospreypublishing.com/armies-o... Music with thanks to Filmstro: https://filmstro.com/lifetime-license... Get 20% off an annual license! Use our exclusive coupon code: EPICHISTORYTV_ANN Image credits - via Flickr under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 2.0 Sky - Anyul Rivas Wooded Hills - Alexander Annenkov Dramatic Fields - Antonio Caiazzo Twin peaks of Mount Ararat - Adam Jones Please help me make more videos at Patreon:   / epichistorytv   Find out more about Epic History TV: http://www.epichistory.tv/ #EpicHistoryTV #Crusades Like us on Facebook   / epichistorytv   Follow us on Twitter   / epichistorytv   Follow us on Instagram   / epichistorytv