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First Crusade

Noun

Meaning

a Crusade from 1096 to 1099; captured Jerusalem and created a theocracy there

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Examples

The outburst of the first crusade was splendid even in a military sense, but it was great beyond comparison in its reflexion in architecture, ornament, poetry, color, religion and philosophy. Its men were astonishing, and its women were worth all the rest. Henry Adams

Adhemar (also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz) de Monteil (died 1 August 1098) was one of the principal figures of the First Crusade and was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087. Source: Internet

Canduci 2010, p. 279 The help he sought from the West was simply some mercenary forces, not the immense hosts that arrived, to his consternation and embarrassment, after the pope preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont later that same year. Source: Internet

Beneath the library where Henry was last seen, Indy and Elsa discover the tomb of a First Crusade knight, which also contains a complete version of the inscription that Henry had used, this one revealing the location of the Grail. Source: Internet

Early life The Crusader states in 1165 The Kingdom of Jerusalem was founded in 1099 at the end of the First Crusade. Source: Internet

A mitred Adhémar de Monteil carrying the Holy Lance in one of the battles of the First Crusade 19th-century painting on display at Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy (in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ). Source: Internet

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