Episode #60- How Do You Explain the First Crusade? (Part III)

Our Fake History

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🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1096 the "People's Crusade" led by Peter the Hermit was on the cusp of flaming out spectacularly. Luckily for the Europeans this group of zealous peasants were not the only crusaders on route to the holy land. Once the nobility of Western Europe arrived on the scene the crusade was able to begin in earnest. The arrival of the so-called "Baron's Crusade" would signal a new phase in this conflict. Visions, magical objects, and signs from God would turn this military campaign into a truly legendary event. Tune in and find out how donkey blood, conveniently placed relics, and a runaway prophet all play a role in the story.
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0:00.0	When we last left Peter the Hermit and the popular crusade, they were sitting outside the gates
0:12.7	of Constantinople waiting to fulfill their destiny.
0:17.6	By this point, the popular crusade had succeeded in murdering thousands of European Jews,
0:23.5	leading innocent Hungarians, and engaging in pitched battles with the Byzantine Empire,
0:29.6	the very people they were supposed to be helping.
0:33.0	They were now on the precipice of their greatest achievement yet, being completely wiped
0:38.9	out almost immediately after crossing into Turkish territory.
0:44.0	You see, what happened next is the matter of some serious historical debate.
0:49.8	The Byzantine sources tell us that the emperor, Alexios Comnenos, pleaded with Peter and
0:55.4	the other leaders of the crusade to wait outside the walls of Constantinople for the real
1:00.8	body of knights and nobles to arrive from Europe.
1:05.1	But the leaders of the popular crusade would hear none of it and insisted on being ferried
1:10.5	across the boss for a straight so they could get on with the business of fighting the Turks.
1:16.0	In this version of events, the emperor agreed only after seriously cautioning the crusaders
1:21.8	against facing the Turks along.
1:24.6	However, other sources suggest that Alexios was only too happy to ferry the crusaders into
1:32.3	Anatolia and may have even heard them along.
1:37.0	Historians who favored these sources point out that Alexios, who was by all accounts a pretty
1:42.3	clever guy, was looking for a quick and easy way to get rid of the popular crusade.
1:49.8	He had come to hate this movement after they had wreaked havoc on his northern provinces.
1:55.6	This interpretation has it that Alexios knew full well that sending the popular crusade
2:01.6	into Anatolia was a death sentence.
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