In 1071, the battle of Manzikert, the Sel Jurks Turks inflicted a crushing defeat over the Byzantire Empire. They wanted to conquer most of Anatolia-cities such as, Nicaea and Antioch. In 1092 the Great Sel Jurk's Sulton Malik Shahded died, thereby his empire began to fragment. The Byzantire Empire came under a new attack. In 1095, Byzantire's Emperor-Alexius I Komnenos wrote to Pope Urban II making a desperate appeal for military aid from his fellow Christian from the West. The results from the letter will be like anything ever seen before. Pope Urban saw the Emperor appeal as a golden opportunity-a chance to heal the rift that emerged between Western and Eastern churches in the Great Schism-1954. And to reclaim Christianity most Holy sites, most of all Jerusalem-lost in Muslim's rules 400 years before. At Clermont in France, Pope Urban preached a sermon to a gathering of clergy and nobles he called on Christian knights and foot solders, to go East to aid the brothering Christians and free Jerusalem from Muslim's …show more content…
Pope appeal was preached across Europe sparking a wave of religious ''fever'' thousand of lords, knights, and ordinary people was eager to travel to the Holy Land and fight for Christ-later to become known as Crucesignatus (a few of these men saw opportunity in the East for fame and fortune, but overwhelmingly they want the land for spiritual salvation-to save their souls from firing Hell). Viral success from his appeal led thousand of ordinary town folks to take the cross, many inspired by a French priest known as Peter the Herman-who became leader of this so call