Siege of Jerusalem

the Council of Clermont, the extreme faith and dedication exerted by the crusaders and the disunity between the Muslim leaders enabled the crusaders to attack when the Islamic kingdom was weak, enabling them to capture the most sought after city, Jerusalem. A key defining factor was the disunity amongst the Muslim states. After the death of Malik Shah, local warlords seized the opportunity to build up their own power bases. This therefore meant that the Muslim world was in complete chaos and the

The first crusade started in autumn of 1095. Pope Urban II initiated the first crusade by calling upon his Christians to reclaim the city of Jerusalem. The Crusade was also meant to seek revenge on the followers of Islam. The followers were accused of committing crimes against “Christendom”. Pope Urbans crusade was made possible by the work of St. Augustine on Christian Violence in the past. Many Christians joined the crusade because the Pope promised rewards for the afterlife. After the fourth

Castle in the month of Safar announces the conquest of Jerusalem for the month of Rajab.” Aleppo fell in June of 1183, the Muslim month of Safar. Saladin was defeated in his first attempt to take Palestine and during his attempt the pilgrimage route to Mecca had been interrupted by the Christians. The Caliph of Baghdad criticized Saladin for not protected the pilgrimage route and Saladin negotiated a truce with the Christian King of Jerusalem, and waited patiently for another opportunity or provocation

During the seventh century a religion known as Islam arose in the Arabian peninsula. Although at first glimpse it may have seem as non threatening, soon there after, Islam erupted out of Arabia, rapidly taking control of the Middle East. Subsequently both Persia and the Christian Byzantine Empire were completely defeated and absorbed into the Islamic world. Islamic forces urged there followers to ensure that the world was under their political control. If it must be spread by the sword then so be

Southern Kingdom” eight years later. The Assyrian king at this time was Sennacherib and recorded all his sieges across Judah. He states this in Sennacherib’s Annals, “As to Hezekiah, the Jew, he did not submit to my yoke, I laid siege to 46 of his strong cities, walled forts and to the countless small villages in their vicinity, and conquered (them) . . . Himself [Hezekiah] I made a prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage.”. The Bible even openly admits this in 2 Kings 18:13.

First Crusade began when crusaders arrived at Jerusalem and fought to reestablish it as a Christian city. Raymond d’Aguiliers served as an important eyewitness during the First Crusade. During this time, Raymond d’Aguiliers recorded his observations of this siege and titled his historical chronicle, The Fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099. The chronicle he created is a primary historical account of the violent pathway that led to the capture of Jerusalem. Within this chronicle, he provided specific

The first crusade was the first Christian journey to Jerusalem, the holy land so that they could aid the Eastern Christians lay siege to the city and take it back from the Saracens, a name for the Muslims during the Crusades. In November 1095, Pope Urban II called for the first crusade and announced it at the town of Clermont, central France. He proposed that Christians go to Jerusalem to liberate the church in the name of religious devotion, a cover-up for people seeking honour or glory. The crusaders

The months that followed the Council of Clermont were marked by an epidemic of religious excitement in Western Europe. The most popular preachers everywhere took up the cry "God wills it!" and urged the listeners to start for Jerusalem. A monk named Peter the Hermit aroused large parts of France with his passionate eloquence, as he rode from town to town, carrying a huge cross before him and preaching to vast crowds. Without waiting for the main body of nobles, which was to assemble at Constantinople

the city of Jerusalem. There are two different versions of the text: The Biblical and Sennacherib version. This event was recorded by Sennacherib himself. Which means he meant to write it as if he was the hero in his own story. In the story “ I besieged Beth-Dagon, Joppa, Banai-Barqa, Azuru, cities belonging to Shidqia who did not bow to my feet quickly enough”, fell to Sennacherib. King Hezekiah “did not submit to my yoke” led a rebellion in Judah. In response Sennacherib “laid siege to 46 of his

Muslim Sultan of Egypt. In 1187, Saladin gained control of Jerusalem, sparking conversations between Christians all around Europe that the idea of Muslims parading around the Holy Land was horrible and they had to do something. Of course the leaders of many nations heard of this, most notably Richard I, King Philip II of France and the Emperor of Germany, Frederick Barbarossa, who decided to crusade into the Middle East and get Jerusalem back. On the way there, many things happened, probably most