WEARABLE AND RARE ANCIENT BYZANTINE CRUSADER ' S BRONZE CROSS PENDANT 1100 AD
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:42509112 | Colour: Bronze |
| Type: Crosses | Material: Bronze |
| Provenance: Ownership History Available |
ANCIENT BYZANTINE BRONZE CRUSADER'S CROSS PENDANT, FIRST CRUSADE
Highly wearable. Rare artefact
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The initial objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. These campaigns were subsequently given the name crusades. The earliest initiative for the First Crusade began in 10...95 when the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos, requested military support in the Byzantine empire's conflict with the Seljuk-led Turks. This was followed later in the year by the Council of Clermont during which Pope Urban II supported the Byzantine request for military assistance and also urged faithful Christians to undertake an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem This call was met with an enthusiastic popular response across all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians numbering in the thousands, led by Peter the Hermit , a French priest, were the first to respond. What has become known as the People's crusade passed through Germany and indulged in wide-ranging anti-Jewish activities and massacres. On leaving Byzantine-controlled territory in Anatolia hey were annihilated in a Turkish ambush at the Battle of Civetot in October 1096.
Age: 1100 AD
Metal detecting find 1980s
Highly wearable. Rare artefact
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The initial objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. These campaigns were subsequently given the name crusades. The earliest initiative for the First Crusade began in 10...95 when the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos, requested military support in the Byzantine empire's conflict with the Seljuk-led Turks. This was followed later in the year by the Council of Clermont during which Pope Urban II supported the Byzantine request for military assistance and also urged faithful Christians to undertake an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem This call was met with an enthusiastic popular response across all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians numbering in the thousands, led by Peter the Hermit , a French priest, were the first to respond. What has become known as the People's crusade passed through Germany and indulged in wide-ranging anti-Jewish activities and massacres. On leaving Byzantine-controlled territory in Anatolia hey were annihilated in a Turkish ambush at the Battle of Civetot in October 1096.
Age: 1100 AD
Metal detecting find 1980s
