At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Adhemar showed great zeal for the crusade ( there is evidence Urban II had conferred with Adhemar before the council ) and having been named apostolic legate and appointed to lead the crusade by Pope Urban II, he accompanied Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, to the east.

At the end of 1095 and beginning of 1096, months before the departure of the official crusade in August, there were attacks on Jewish communities in France and Germany.

Shortly before Christmas 1095, one of St-Calais ' knights, Boso, fell ill and dreamed he was transported to the afterlife, where he found a large house with gates made of iron.

There was no armed confrontation between the two before Håkon died suddenly in February 1095.

The castle was built at the site in 1095 by Bohemond d ' Hauteville, that elected it as their base before leaving for the first crusade in August 1096.

Saint Olegarius ( San José María de Porcioles ) came to this priory from 1095 to 1108 before becoming the bishop of Barcelona and, later, the archbishop of Tarragona.

Since Matilda had secretly transferred her property to the Church before her marriage, Welf left her in 1095 and, together with his father, changed sides to King Henry IV, possibly in exchange for a promise of succeeding his father as duke of Bavaria.

* 1095: Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade.

The First Crusade was preached at the Council of Clermont in 1095 by Pope Urban II, with the goal of assisting the Byzantine Empire against the invasions of the Seljuq Turks.

* 1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.

* 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.

* 1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

In 1095, the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked for military aid from Pope Urban II against the Muslim invasionns.

As a better means of evaluating Urban's true motivations in calling for a crusade to the Holy Lands, there are four extant letters written by Pope Urban II himself: one to the Flemish ( dated December 1095 ); one to the Bolognese ( dated September 1096 ); one to Vallombrosa ( dated October 1096 ); and one to the counts of Catalonia ( dated either 1089 or 1096 – 1099 ).

* 1095: Pope Urban II calls upon Western Europeans to take up the cross and reclaim the Holy Lands, officially commencing the First Crusade.

* The Romanesque basilica of Sant ' Abbondio, consecrated in 1095 by Pope Urban II.

In 1094, he was excommunicated by Hugh, Archbishop of Lyon, for the first time ; after a long silence, Pope Urban II repeated the excommunication at the Council of Clermont in November 1095.

Clermont was the starting point of the First Crusade, in which Christendom sought to free Jerusalem from Muslim domination: Pope Urban II preached the crusade there in 1095, at the Second Council of Clermont.

It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia.

In March 1095, Alexios sent envoys to the Council of Piacenza to ask Pope Urban II for aid against the Turks.

In 1095 Urban II, the new Pope, called for a Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim forces and also to aid the Byzantine Empire which was under Muslim attack.

Sources differ as to whether he was present at Pope Urban II's famous Council of Clermont in 1095 ; but it is certain that he was one of the preachers of the crusade in France afterward, and his own experience may have helped to give fire to the Crusading cause.

St-Calais managed the king's case against Anselm at Rockingham in 1095, when Anselm wished to go to receive his pallium from Pope Urban II.

Pope Urban II began the First Crusade in November 1095 at the Council of Clermont, France, when he exhorted French knights to retake the Holy Land in Palestine.

* Santa Maria in Campagna, a Renaissance church, faces Piazzale delle Crociate (" Crusades Square "), so called because Pope Urban II summoned the First Crusade here in 1095.

The original idea for the First Crusade that had been preached by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 had already turned into a much different popular movement, led by Peter the Hermit.

The earliest record of a plenary indulgence was Pope Urban II's declaration at the Council of Clermont ( 1095 ) that he remitted all penance incurred by crusaders who had confessed their sins in the Sacrament of Penance, considering participation in the crusade equivalent to a complete penance.

The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II, with the stated goal of regaining control of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, who had captured them from the Byzantines in 638.

After becoming count in 1093, he joined the First Crusade, launched by Pope Urban II in 1095.

New constructions are built, and Pope Urban II, who was in Tulle in 1095, grants protection.

* Medieval Sourcebook: Speech by Urban II at Council of Clermont, 1095 ( Five versions of the Speech )

Urban II's movement took its first public shape at the Council of Piacenza, where, in March 1095, Urban II received an ambassador from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos asking for help against Muslim ( Seljuk ) Turks who had taken over most of formerly Byzantine Empire Anatolia.

There exists no exact transcription of the speech that Urban delivered at the Council of Clermont on 27 November 1095.

In July 1095, Urban turned to his homeland of France to recruit men for the expedition.

The only contemporary records are a few letters written by Urban in 1095.

During the rest of 1095 and into 1096, Urban spread the message throughout France, and urged his bishops and legates to preach in their own dioceses elsewhere in France, Germany, and Italy as well.

In 1095 Peter renewed his father's oaths to Urban II, and Urban renewed his promise of protection, under which Sancho, his sons, and his kingdom had been placed in July 1089.

* 1095 – Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily ( d. 1154 )

* William II, Duke of Apulia ( 1095 – 1127 )

* Margrave Leopold II of Austria ( d. 1095 )

The Norman Roger II of Sicily ( 1095 – 1154 ), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who previously had served as a naval commander for several North African Moslem rulers.

Roger II ( Mileto 22 December 1095 – 26 February 1154 ) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon.

At the time of the birth of his youngest son, in 1095, Roger I ruled the County of Sicily, his nephew, Roger Borsa, was the Duke of Apulia and Calabria, and his great nephew, Richard II of Capua, was the Prince of Capua.

* Anselm of Canterbury, later Saint Anselm, was stationed in Hayes by King William II in 1095