The First Crusade | 2. On the road

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos had asked the pope for a small crack team of western knights to aid him with his struggles in Asia Minor – a plea for help which had set crusading wheels into motion. But, he was shocked when waves of unruly crusaders began arriving in waves outside the walls of his capital. In this second episode of our latest HistoryExtra podcast series, we’ll reconstruct the journey that saw the crusaders end up outside Constantinople, dealing with logistical challenges and fraught relationships along the way. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.2	Someone that has sex.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.4	And remember, it's just between us.
0:31.5	Faced with the legacy of huge losses of territory, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenos
0:42.3	had asked for a small crack team of Western knights from the Pope to aid him with his struggles.
0:48.3	But he was going to be rather shocked by what turned up on his doorstep.
0:55.0	Arriving in waves outside the walls of his capital, Constantinople, between late 1096
1:01.0	and early 1097, the Crusaders had arrived. But as we'll reveal in this episode, it had been
1:08.0	a long and arduous journey across Europe to get there.
1:14.3	I'm Emily Briffitt, and in this new History Extra podcast series,
1:18.9	we'll be travelling back in time to walk in the footsteps of the Crusaders,
1:23.8	as we trace the story of the First Crusade,
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