The First Crusade - full documentary
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- Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2020
- RCH's classic documentary on the First Crusade revised and updated. From the Battle of Dorylaeum to the Siege of Antioch, to the taking of Jerusalem, the First Crusade greatly impacted the medieval world, and essentially launched the broader Crusades movement. Bohemond, Godfrey of Bouillon, Tancred, and other important figures appear in all their glory.
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Sources:
-Anna Comnena - The Alexiad, trans. E.R.A Sewter, (Penguin, 1969)
-Asbridge, Thomas - The First Crusade: A New History, (Oxford, 2004)
-Fulcher of Chartres - A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127, trans. Frances Rita Ryan, (University of Tennessee Press, 1973)
-Hill, John and Laurita - Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, (Syracuse University, 1962)
-Ibn al-Athir - The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period, Part 1, trans. D.S. Richards (Ashgate, 2005)
-Ibn al-Qalanisi - The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades, trans. H.A.R. Gibb, (Dover, 2002)
-Lack, Katherine - The Conqueror’s Son: Duke Robert Curthose, Thwarted King, (Sutton, 2007)
-Madden, Thomas - The New Concise History of the Crusades, (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006)
-Peters, Edward - The First Crusade: Fulcher of Chartres and Other Sources Materials, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
-Ralph of Caen - The Gesta Tancredi, trans. Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, (Ashgate, 2010)
-Riley-Smith, Jonathan - The Crusades: A History, (Yale University Press, 2005)
-Riley-Smith, Jonathan - The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, (Cambridge, 2002)
-Robert the Monk - History of the First Crusade, trans. Carol Sweetenham, (Ashgate, 2006)
-Smail, R.C. - Crusader Warfare, 1097-1193, (Cambridge, 1995)
-Tyerman, Christopher - God’s War, (Harvard University Press, 2006)
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Does that include The Northern Crusades (or Baltic Crusades) or only the crusades concerning the holy land and conflict with the muslims?
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels👍
I would happily watch it if you make it available for Europe quickly.
Being unable to watch the movies like "Fatima", etc, because of the regional restrictions is very frustrating...
Are you a REAL Christian? Do you worship at Jesus' church, the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church?
@@BeauJames59 lol chill
I am a prof. of History from Serbia, and I can tell you : This is an Excellent presentation . Nice job , wonderfull. :) 👍👍👍
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@@dylanmurtagh666 I believe him idk why but I do 😁
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beautiful work sir. its good to see someone keeping history alive
Glad you enjoyed it!
I second that. thank you....
The entire Siege of Antioch was just "It's over" -> "We're back" -> "It's SO over" -> "We're back baby!" -> "It's never been more over than it is right now" - > "Truth is, we never left"
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If the Crusaders secretly still exist then they are needed again. I’ll sign up.
Needed for what?
@@nickscurvy8635 To repel the invading hordes in the name of Christianity.
1-72 AR BN in U.S. ARMY is called CRUSADERS. B. Company was called BLACK KNIGHTS. I was Red Four Delta in RUFF RIDERS.
SECOND TO NONE
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A lot of Europeans in WWII thought they were crusading to save Europe against the Bolsheviks. I think there was like a million volunteers from at least 12 different nations
I'm in
I’m really thankful for your work. This is the only channel I watch daily.
And I’m really into the crusade history, and it’s even better learning from you
Thanks for all the research gone into this, love the videos.
Wow, a great video, thank you Stephen for keeping the history real
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This, is nothing short of awe inspiring. The best channel on RUclips (and I'm subscribed to a wide swath of content on here).
Thanks James! Much appreciated!
Even then, after so many sieges and capture, the city of Antioch must have been truly wonderful, but in antiquity it must have been magnificent with beautiful Greek and Roman architecture throughout the city. Wonderful documentary, excellent research and presentation - very well done - am looking forward for more to come !❤
Thank you!
I've been watching your videos for awhile, but saved this until now.
What a great presentation you've given. I was especially impressed by all the great historical paintings, art, maps, quotes, and the multitude of cited primary sources.
A couple of times I felt like I was right there next to the princes.
Wow, thank you!
Question for you - I get that that they were exhausted and felt like they had accomplished their goal, but was it not reckless to only leave 300 knights to defend what they had given up so much to conquer? Perhaps they had mercenaries or other options to defend. Curious for your insights on this.
I know they had already defeated all the main armies near them, but it seems like throughout the Crusades their enemies were always like Skeletor and just raised another massive army.
@@peterhamel2927 It is interesting. It tells us something about the realities of medieval western society, institutions, and what motivated the Crusades. The Crusades were voluntary acts of pilgrimage, built upon the concept of pilgrimage. Most of the people involved were doing it to take part in that spiritual exercise. They performed their vows, and then went home. A small minority of people were interested in going out there and setting up shop, and their biggest challenge was always getting others to be a part of that. The First Crusade is such a fascinating and unique event in history. Most of the men who went out there, once they were done, were eager to get home, I suspect like many soldiers in any war. I'm sure a lot of people thought, "Well, I'd love to stay and help out, but I've got family back home, things to take care of, a life, work, etc."
As time went on, the major institutions in the west tried to solve this problem, and they were pretty successful over time. Money was never really the issue. There was always money pouring in. The popes and the church raised money. Kings sent boat loads of money. Henry II of England probably personally ransomed tens of thousands of Christian prisoners in the east. The problem was man power. It was always tough to keep large numbers of men out there. Plenty of men would go for a while, then go back home. There were fortunes to be made, fiefs to be had, great pay for mercenaries. Men would go, serve for a while, but most people wanted to get back to Europe eventually.
Despite this, it's remarkable that the institutions built out there were as strong as they were. The Crusader States were thriving, powerful, and well-run entities. It was only with great difficulty that the Muslims eventually brought them down. And to do it, they needed huge numbers. The Muslim army that finally brought down Acre in 1291 likely outnumbered the crusaders 7 to 1, and even then it wasn't an easy victory.
@RealCrusadesHistory First of all, I'm blown away by the time and energy you put into your response, which was a short essay in and of itself. Your dedication to your viewers and content on this channel is unquestionable.
As for the response itself, I agree 4 years is a long time to spend on the road away from anything, let alone in medieval times. I think you are right that push had come to shove. They achieved their goal. Cashed in on land, money, power, faith, what have you. Obviously they knew what they were doing leaving those 300 knights there more than me since they survived 100+ more years.
I will continue to check out your other videos. Forgive me if I jump in with a question here or there on those as well.
Thanks for awesome channel Real Crusade History! I love these stories!
Glad you enjoy it!
Outstanding video. Stirring usage of descriptive language and well-researched primary and secondary sources. Well done indeed
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is probably the best video on RUclips.
That is a very chldish comment.
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@@yankees29 why is that? Yeah, babe ......ok. very good. Keep watching Norman
@@charlyromeo7926 are you writing in English?
@@charlyromeo7926 I am actually part Norman through my mother’s family. William the Conqueror is a relative of mine.
I really appreciate how you present all this information on history...... awesome visual!!!!
This is superb. Should be mandatory viewing for every Western Country.
Seriously, your videos are some of the best on youtube. Subscribed and liked, please keep posting!
Thanks!
Great video as always!
Best part of the video is that you provide the historical sources which proves everything your talking about.
Im very glad that there is somebody that does well researched videos, because I dont find that many. Keep up the great work!
Very well put together and presented!
Glad you liked it!
Your videos are the best on making Crusades content
Outstanding video! Thank you for posting.
Thank you!
Thank you for this. Appreciate all the hard work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic work!
Nice list of sources, looks very complete. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I was thinking of making a comic book about the first crusade. Following a lonely knight of Bohemond, mostly because he was the most involved from a narration perspective. I was suprised when you mentioned the gesta francorum (i didnt know about it before your video) which basically is my comic book ahahahahaha
Please make the comic book. Pictures =one of the best ways to learn
Dont let your dream die!!!!!!!
I'd read that comic in a heartbeat. It sounds dope.
I was thinking of making an anime, keep it honorable yet colorful
Cookie squad says to do it!! You can't deny a fellow cookier
It’s a very well documented work, gladly received, thank you for an upstanding narrative…
Cheers from NYC 🗽
Glad you enjoyed it!
I had questions, you answered them. Very well done. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I point people to this channel whenever I can.
And I appreciate that!
Thanks for sharing!
Great content 👍
Excellent video, it's plain you have done extensive research on the topic. I always love seeing history explained.
This is the kind of documentaries that we are missing in our culture. Using paintings, drawings of maps and documents with maybe an actor portrayal now and again to show the information as opposed to CGI videos and animated nonsense. I miss the days of the history channel when they made documentaries like this.
Thanks so much I appreciate that endorsement!
Very well put together.
Where do you recommend looking for further details on the peace overtures of the Fatimids towards the Crusaders? Any interesting books or articles?
It makes one ponder whether the offer could legitimize a long-term Christian presence in the Levant and provide opportunities through further negotiation.
Amazing work btw
Well done, informative.
I appreciate the efforts undertaken to prepare this documentary. The battle and seige explanations are authentic and entertaining. The way of depicting the various Christian leaders was also very engaging. Thanks a lot for this wonderful work.
Thank you!
@@RealCrusadesHistory no thank you
Incredible video! Insanely epic
What a fascinating part of our history.
Such insane characters, and events.
Tip of the hat for how much you put into this!
Has got to be my favorite channel concerning crusade content. Thanks for all your work. Wouldn't the varangians also contain some Rus, saxon, or Anglo troops in there. Not just Scandinavian descent troops?
They did include alot of englishmen.
@@tacocruiser4238 Hey! We're 3 Mike's on a thread! Sitcom?
This channel is fascinating
Aren't the Rus Scandinavian?
@@GeertTheDestoyer I think the preponderance were of scandsnsvian origin . My understanding of why is the Byzantine emperor liked their size ferocity and loyalty to their oath to the emperor. Also I seen suggestions that he liked the fact that they homicidal ties to the kings and courts of Western Europe.
This was incredible, I never realized how legendary this event was. So many details to the story!
RCH...love your work. 🙏 Could you do something on Bernard of Clairvaux?
Excellent , thanks for such great video's.
This is fantastic, so immersing
Thanks!
Great stuff! TYSM for making such high quality preference! 🙋
Glad you like them!
very well done - content and production values -
Thanks!
Awsome video. Good resource.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is a great video! I wish there was a big budget film about the first crusade.
Brilliant documentary thanks
Great video
Very interresting, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Really soothing voice x
Incredible work. I even cross referenced and found nothing of note. You covered it all and was entertaining to watch/listen while working in my car. Huge thanks I love this stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm loving your efforts on this doc. One of my favorite games is Total War Crusades but only due to my passion for history. Txs so much. 🇨🇦
Thanks!
I'm happy you are doing ur thing. Obligato. Tks 🇨🇦
Thanks for the kind words. Raymond.
Fantastic documentary!
Your objective view , presenting your sources as you go is what a doc or form of journalism is given its weight and interest. Look at these comments , can you tell the people are urning for unadulterated information as sources from that day have left you, regardless your politics, religion or labeling people from the past with the standards of today. All those in the journalist media and entertainment umbrella could learn this standard of giving information
Thanks Nick! That's the goal!
Very well done::a frist in a complete history of the 1st crusade:great Doc:::
Thanks!!!
God bless you and God bless your wonderful work, good sir!
Thank you kindly
@Elbow Drop Gaming God loves you and seeks you with every moment. May you find the euphoria that is His mercy.
Thanks for this! It's hard to find a good academic who can make a brief summary of the First Crusade.
Thank you!
God the crusades are without a doubt the most interesting part of history for me as well as the campaign for edessa.
very interesting video
Excellent. Very instructive without all the pc in our country. Keep up thereat work.
Normans, the Vikings who traded the boat for the horse.
I am beholden to you for the knowledge
awesome!
If I start with your first video on your channel and work my way up chronologically to the latest video, do I get a good and chronological history of the Crusades? Is it just to look at in turn and you get a perfect overall picture?
Excellent video!! ✝️✝️✝️
Fascinating topic, you did a tremendous job presenting the First Crusade, its origins, and its impact. I'm currently finishing reading Crusaders An Epic History of The Wars for The Holy Lands by Dan Jones, written like a novel, a riveting book.
Thanks very much!
I love crusades history and I learned new things, thank you
Who played Stronghold Crusader 😁
*raises hand*
Loved the old school stronghold games. Crusader was fun.
Great !!!
very good
👍 Good job regarding history
please do a full documentary on the second crusade
I'm planning too.
@@RealCrusadesHistory we are certainly spoilt hahaha thank you!
Thanks!! Currently using this to study for a unit test lol
Thanks for this gem. I wish Anna had written about me in detail.... like she did with Godfrey ;-)
Next time!
@@RealCrusadesHistory anna was fan of godfrey 🤔
Was it really the spear of destiny found under antioque ? I found it really interesting the supposed vision of St Andrew by the friar.
Had a vision of it, and later won not only that engagement but also the objective of the whole mission, so you tell me, was it? :)
@@nzisobviouslydestinedtorul636 I would say so, but I'm interested in learning more on it.
no.
I must be dumb …. As far as I can tell there is not a button to like this video.
But I love these videos! Lately I have become addicted to listening to them when ever I don’t need my ears for anything else
Thank you very much!
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A smoking hot woman in the comments section of a crusades video? What have I done to receive such a blessing
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@@ryze5436 haha 😂😂
Lol
I have such respect for these Christian (Catholic) men - holy men of great faith, humility, mettle and virtue. Thank you for the video.
You misspelled profit, Greed and Bloodlust
@@uncommonmagic3301 😂😂
@@uncommonmagic3301 He is so naive.
You woriship the cross like the jews had the golden calf you have a golden Cross and you kiss it this is against the second comand catholic have a statue of virgin Mary and kiss the feet of the statue and the statue some times the statue cry's all this you do is idoltary and you add biside the One God a son and a partner you don't keep the comands that Jesus confirm he said by keeping them not abolish them
@@rolomatik1083 protestant nonsense
Elinize emeğinize yüreğinize sağlık ne ğüzel kaliteli video çekimi olmuş süper siniz ✍
Wow,and to really imagine you, me anyone, back then, hand to hand combat with the heavy weapons of that time, warriors,
I would love to see a video on the Teutonic Knights of Germany
Was the First Crusade preached in England as well? If so what was their response?
I think some Englishmen went. There were the boats of Englishmen that showed up for the siege of Jerusalem. I’m sure Robert Curthose also brought some Englishmen from his brother’s realm. But the armed pilgrimage craze didn’t catch on as much in England for the first crusade as it did in mainland Europe. Probably a few reasons: it was that much further and harder to travel from England; they had their own stuff going on ie plenty of fighting in Wales, normans still probably not 100% confident of their rule. Plus, the crusades were born out of continental circumstances. France during the 11th century was extremely fractious. There were, essentially, a dozen or more little kinglet states. The king of France, Philip, was mostly powerless. These kinglets fought each other incessantly. One of the driving factors in the crusades was to get all these squabbling princes the hell out of France and fighting somewhere else.
This was way better than the Kings & General's one, by far.
Thank you.🙏🌎🇺🇸
@20:13 is that lord farquad?
Hola tremendo video gracias saludos
Such honorable men.
As the other comments say, thanks for your accurate and zealous research and presentation
Thanks a lot my friend.
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Very well done. You have presented the modern historical consensus on the nature of the First Crusade (Riley-Smith, Madden, Asbridge, Tyerman, etc. --- a couple of whom I know). You have gently dismissed the accumulated errors and bigotries of the popularized "scholarship." I especially liked your use of R-S's (correct) reinterpretation of the Crusade Theology as a "Liberation Theology." And you were excellent on the involvement and failures of the Byzantine involvement. I do think, if you do a reworking, that you should address the issue of the pogroms against the Jews by the crusaders in the Rhineland and the papal response. And a more clear debunking of the myth of extermination of Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem, which you allude to but pass on too quickly. It is, unfortunately, one of the most enduring myths. By the way, I have a PhD in medieval history from UC Berkeley and have been a professor at three major US state universities over a 30 year period.
Is this a re upload?
RCH, Why did Pope Urban II choose Clermont over other cities in France to give his sermon?
Since the Pope called for a council to meet and the participants were scattered throughout France a central location made sense-Clermont-Ferrand is pretty central in France.
Where would someone look if they wanted too study this subject academically? Based in Lancashire
Ideas matter.
The first real crusade took place in Spain in 1094 led by Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar also known by the name El Cid given by the Moors in respect of his great qualities.
you did not say when and if Count Hugh 1st count Eustace 3rd returned home-
You're right, sorry about that. They both made it home. Eustace lived out his days as Count of Boulogne. He was widely celebrated for his part played at the siege of Jerusalem, and he became a patron of the Knights Templar. Hugh, after his mission to Constantinople, went back home, where he was disgraced for missing out on the final portion of the First Crusade. He ended up going back on Crusade in 1101, where he died as a result of wounds received in battle.
@@RealCrusadesHistory King Stephens father. I know this from the novel When Christ and His Saints Slept by Penman; In the book, 5 year old Stephen who worships his father is told by his hard mother Matilda that his father is a coward.
Two hours across the Channel and the word went around the English foot soldiers...." Are we there yet?" - Crusades were a tough call.
I love this video, any chance you could please put the music back in? Thanks