Urban II
Americannoun
noun
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He was expecting a mercenary force, but instead Pope Urban II framed the conflict between Byzantine and Seljuk as a fight between religions, culminating in the crusading movement.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In 1095, Pope Urban II responded by giving a sermon in France summoning the knights of Europe to holy war to protect Christians in and near the Holy Land.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
A few years later, Pope Urban II — the one who would preach the First Crusade — formally enshrined the relics of the saint.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2018
At the Council of Clermont, in 1095, Pope Urban II addressed a crowd of prelates, knights, and nobles—the leaders of the Latin West.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2017
Beginning with Pope Urban II, the church leadership and the European monarchies sought to bring Christianity as far East as possible and to take over Muslim-controlled trade routes in the process.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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