![]() ![]() "Little is substantiated about Hugh de Payns (also spelled Hugues de Payens), the first Grand Master of the Knights Templar," Suzie Hodge told All About History Magazine. The Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem, abbreviated to the Knights Templar, was created by Hugues de Payens, a French nobleman who had remained in Jerusalem after visiting sometime between 11. Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095, announcing the First Crusade (Image credit: Public Domain / Bibliothèque nationale de France) "To secure it, they created four territories, known as Crusader States: the County of Edessa (1098-1150), the Principality of Antioch (1098-1287), the County of Tripoli (1102-1289) and the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1298)." “Ultimately, these ‘Crusaders’ recaptured much of the Holy Land” Suzie Hodge, author and historian, told All About History Magazine. "Nobody called it the First Crusade back then, but their objective was to get the holy places back under Christian control," Malcolm Barber, emeritus professor of history at the University of Reading in the U.K., told All About History magazine in an email.Ī multinational army was raised for the Crusade, led by several of Europe's monarchs and nobility. ![]() ![]() In response, the pope called for the capture of Christianity's holy sites in the Holy Land, beginning the First Crusade. "His call for help was a desperate last roll of the dice for a ruler whose regime and empire was on the brink of collapse," Frankopan wrote. 1095 Alexios I Komnenos, the Byzantine Emperor from 1081-1118, asked Pope Urban II for assistance in fighting the Muslims. ![]()
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