Children's Crusade
attempted crusade by European Christians to expel Muslims from the Holy Land
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The Children's Crusade was an attempted crusade by European Christians who sought to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control. It matters historically as a notable episode in the broader Crusade movement, reflecting the religious fervor and ambitions that characterized medieval Christian efforts in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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The Children's Crusade, by Gustave Doré The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land in the early 13th century. Some sources have narrowed the date to 1212. Although it is called the Children's Crusade, it never received the papal approval from Pope Innocent III to be an actual crusade. The traditional narrative is likely conflated from a mix of historical and mythical events, including the preaching of visions by a French boy and a German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children being sold into slavery in Tunis. The crusaders of the real events on which the story is based left areas of Germany, led by Nicholas of Cologne, and Northern France, led by Stephen of Cloyes.
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