Crusade of the Poor
id:
crusade-of-the-poor-284-10557984
title:
Crusade of the Poor
text:
The Crusade of the Poor was an unauthorised military expedition—one of the so-called "popular crusades"—undertaken in the spring and summer of 1309 by members of the lower classes from England, Flanders, Brabant, northern France and the German Rhineland. Responding to an appeal for support for a crusade to the Holy Land, the men, overwhelmingly poor, marched to join a small professional army being assembled with Papal approval. Along the way, they engaged in looting, persecution of Jews and comb
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Military expedition by lower classes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_of_the_Poor
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-30T16:59:16Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q42376447","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42376447"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14