Crusades Dbq

The Medieval period was a rough time period because there was a lot of death and conflict from fighting and diseases. There were places that had a social class and because of that there was a lot of inequality between the people living there because the people who are on top of the social class had more power than the people at the lower classes and the people in the lower class did most of the work but get paid the least. There were conflicts in parts of Europe because of different religious beliefs this ultimately leads to many crusades with the objective to keep peace to the areas of Europe but what actually happened is that the crusaders ended up slaughtering the people inside the towns that they were living and they didn’t care which religion they were in or what age they were. Godfrey of Bouillon was a French who was born in 1060 and he was the leader of the First Crusade and he won at the Siege of Antioch he was later elected as king of Jerusalem on July 22 1099 but he

refused the title of King because he believed that the true King of Jerusalem was Christ . He died at the Siege of Acre by an arrow. Peter the Hermit was born in 1050 and was a priest and a key figure of the First Crusade he lead the first of the five sections of the People's Crusade to the destination of their pilgrimage. He also preached the first Crusade.

People said stories that Jesus appeared to Peter the Hermit in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and bade him preach the crusade and they also said that he was the true author and originator of the First Crusade.

Thesis

Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon were both people who participated in the First Crusade to save The Holy Land. The First Crusades main mission is to go and take over Jerusalem which was called a Holy Place because of all the religious activities that happened there and they decided to take it over is because the people who were controlling it at the time prohibited any Christians from visiting Jerusalem. They did capture Jerusalem in the end but even though they did that there were still conflicts between people of different religions and more Crusades will be made but these Crusades will accomplish nothing but a lot of deaths because the Crusaders that were in the Crusades were mostly filled with greedy and violent people that would kill every person whoever they come across and raid everything from a town that they destroyed. Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon had some similarities and differences in regard of participating in the Crusade, what role they played in the crusade, what they did during the Crusade, and what their men did when they were raiding during the Crusade.

1st similarity

The first thing that both Permit the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon had in common is that they both participated in the First Crusade.

When Pope Urban II called for a Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim forces and also to aid the Byzantine Empire which was under Muslim attack both Permit the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon volunteered to be in the crusade in order to help the crusaders take back the Holy Land and Liberate it and to assist the Byzantine Empire. They both led people in the Crusade and went into battle. This meant that they had to kill people if they ever wanted to control the areas they were trying to take over. Both of their men would capture towns and cities that they come across and eliminated everybody in it until they reach Jerusalem and capture

it.

2nd similarity

The second thing that both Permit the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon had in common is that they were both Christians. This meant that everything they did in the First Crusade was because they believed that they were doing the right thing for all Christians. Unlike other Crusaders they were not driven by greed or did it for the fortune because they knew that Christ will not tolerate any of that. So when Godfrey of Bouillon was giving the opportunity to be titled king he denied it because he said that Christ was the only king in this world and whenever Peter the Hermit went somewhere he always believed in god for helping them win the battles and to capture Jerusalem for the Christians and he would later on be the founder of an Augustinian monastery in France named for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Difference

The one thing that both Permit the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon had different is their role in the Crusade which is that Permit the Hermit was a priest and that Godfrey of Bouillon was a lord who fought so because of this Peter the Hermit did not kill anyone in the Crusades and he just preached to every location that the Crusaders captures and he also gave courage to all of the Crusaders that he led because they were promised that all the sins that they had will all be forgiven if they die during the crusade. Godfrey of Bouillon on the other hand actually killed people in many sieges and won those sieges like the Siege of Nicaea, the Battle of Dorilaeum, and he also helped in the capture of Jerusalem. He also took out loans on most of his lands, or sold them, to the bishop of Liège and the bishop of Verdun and with the money he gathered thousands of knights to fight in the Holy Land as the Army of Godfrey of Bouillon.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Permit the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon had similarities like being in the First Crusade and both being Christians but they also had a difference which was that Peter the Hermit was a priest and Godfrey of Bouillon was a lord who fought. That means that they took back the Holy Land so that Christians can be allowed to visit Jerusalem (which is a Holy Place) again since the people who had I first didn’t let Christians visit. Peter the Hermit also didn’t fight since he was a priest but he did command people to areas where they were taking over and Godfrey of Bouillon did fight since he was a warrior on the frontlines and helped his men take over the areas they were evading.