Person1035 – 1099
Pope Urban II
Pope (r. 1088–1099) who launched the First Crusade with his call at the Council of Clermont in 1095
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At the Council of Clermont Pope Urban II called on Christians to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule, setting the crusading movement in motion.
Themes this person appears in
- The Crusades1095 – 1291
From the Council of Clermont to the fall of Acre — two centuries of war between Latin Europe and the Islamic world over the Holy Land