Urban II27 November 1095
Preaches for the First Crusade at Clermont to free the Holy Places at Jerusalem. Pope Urban II presides over the Council of Clermont and calls the First Crusade into being to free the Holy Places at Jerusalem
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Preaches for the First Crusade at Clermont to free the Holy Places at Jerusalem. Pope Urban II presides over the Council of Clermont and calls the First Crusade into being to free the Holy Places at Jerusalem
Urbans call to arms to recapture the holy land begins the 1st Crusade
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