Episode 3 - The speech that launched the Crusades

History of the Crusades

Sharyn Eastaugh

Crusades, History

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🗓️ 19 October 2012

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Pope Urban II and his speech at Clermont which started the crusading movement

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0:00.0	History of the Crusades.
0:07.0	the Crusades.
0:13.0	Hello again.
0:15.0	Episode 3, the speech that launched the Crusades.
0:23.0	Hello again.
0:25.0	Something important is about to happen.
0:28.0	It's Tuesday the 27th of November in the year 1095.
0:32.0	We're in Claremont in the year 1095. We're in Clermont in the Orvern Gaul in what is now
0:36.3	central France. Pope Urban II has left Italy and is doing a tour of France. He has stopped in Clermont to hold a council
0:45.4	attended by 13 archbishops, 82 bishops and many abbots and other clerics.
0:51.2	Each of the attendees has been asked to bring along the most powerful
0:55.6	nobles from their region to listen to a public speech the Pope is to give at the end of the
0:59.9	council session. So many people are expected to attend this speech that a platform has been hastily erected in a field outside the eastern gate of the cathedral, as the cathedral itself is too small.
1:15.0	A hush descends.
1:17.0	The Pope makes his speech and it changes the course of history.
1:21.0	Robert of Reims describes what happened. The Pope said, a grave report has come from the lands around Jerusalem, that a race absolutely alien to God has invaded the land of the Christians.
1:34.7	They have either raised the churches of God to the ground or enslaved them to their own rights.
1:40.3	They cut open the navels of those whom they choose to torment, drag them around and flog them before killing them as they lie on the ground with all their entrails out.
1:49.0	What can I say of the appalling violation of women?
1:53.2	On whom does the task lie of avengingless, if not on you?
1:57.4	Take the road to the Holy Sepocca.
1:59.7	Rescue that land and rule over it yourselves. that land as the scripture says floweth with
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