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As Pope Urban had acknowledged at Clermont when he called the First Crusade, religious leaders were helpless to halt the chaos across the continent.
'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009
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When he called the First Crusade, it was partly to assert the power of the papacy against the Holy Roman Empire to the north and the Orthodox Church to the east.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Robert Colvile 2012
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The First Crusade was the first great victory for the reformed papacy; the papal dominance of the military effort to defend Christendom is significant of the new prestige of the papacy and the decline of the emperors.
1077, Jan 2001
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The First Crusade was the only one which had any real success, and even this was a transient one, for less than ninety years afterwards (A.D.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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But the First Crusade was not an isolated undertaking; it was part of a larger effort to cast off the yoke of Islam.
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The Holy Land, and this particular site above all, became the principal goal of the First Crusade.
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The Holy Land, and this particular site above all, became the principal goal of the First Crusade.
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But the First Crusade was not an isolated undertaking; it was part of a larger effort to cast off the yoke of Islam.
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The Holy Land, and this particular site above all, became the principal goal of the First Crusade.
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The First Crusade was in part, therefore, a war of Christian colonization, as well as Christian liberation.
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