Post by dividavi on Aug 3, 2017 8:12:22 GMT
The video mentioned in passing the Crusade against the Albigensians where the Pope decreed a genocide against religious dissenters. In Béziers, the entire population was slaughtered and the city burned to the ground. Contemporary sources give estimates of the number of dead ranging between 15,000 and 20,000.
Not mentioned in your excellent video was the People's Crusade of 1096. In the late spring and summer of 1096, crusaders destroyed most of the Jewish communities along the Rhine in a series of unprecedentedly large pogroms in France and Germany in which thousands of Jews were massacred, driven to suicide, or forced to convert to Christianity. Eleven Jews were murdered in Speyer, where the Bishop saved the rest of the Jews for a large payment, but in Worms some 800 were murdered. In Mainz, over one thousand Jews were murdered, as well as more in Trier, Metz, Cologne, and elsewhere. Others were subjected to forced baptism and conversion.
Also omitted was the Fourth Crusade, a Western European armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III, originally intended to reconquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, a sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire.
Nonetheless, it was a great video, Maya. Thanks for your efforts.