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The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.
Whilst Raymond and the other leaders often quarrelled with each other over the leadership of the crusade, Adhemar was always recognized as the spiritual leader of the crusade.
He was born while his father was on crusade, attempting to create the County of Tripoli on the Palestinian coast.
Among his companions he had made enemies and he was destined to take no share in the crusade he had joined.
On the urgings of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus a new crusade was organized to defeat him.
" Lewis believes that it " was his farsighted certainty that total annihilation of Baratieri and a sweep into Eritrea would force the Italian people to turn a bungled colonial war into a national crusade " that stayed his hand.
Parliament was actively hostile towards the Spanish throne, and thus, when called by James, hoped for a crusade under the leadership of the king to rescue Protestants on the continent from Habsburg rule.
After this visit, in which she was deemed sufficiently orthodox, she began traveling with her followers throughout northern and central Italy advocating reform of the clergy and the launch of a new crusade and advising people that repentance and renewal could be done through " the total love for God.
The chronicler of the crusade which was to follow, Peter de Vaux de Cernay, portrays the sequence of events in such a way that, having failed in his effort to peacefully demonstrate the errors of Catharism, the Pope then called a formal crusade, appointing a series of leaders to head the assault.
The Polish position was defended by Paulus Vladimiri, rector of the Jagiellonian University, who challenged legality of the Teutonic crusade.
They argued that the Knights were perfectly justified in their crusade as it was a sacred duty of Christians to spread the true faith.
He suggested that it was not a papal banner to the King but a papal banner to the Churchly legate in the North, more specifically to archbishop Andreas Sunesøn, which he – without the knowledge of the King – brought with him on the King's crusade in the Baltic countries, in an effort to make the army take on a Christian symbol ( over the king's symbol ) and thereby strengthen the power of the church.
He notes that the order came to Denmark in the latter half of the 12th century and during the next centuries spread to major cities, like Odense, Viborg, Horsens, Ribe and their headquarters in Slagelse, so by the time of the Baltic crusade, the symbol was already a known symbol in Denmark.
Eleanor was humiliated by this episode, and maintained a low profile for the rest of the crusade.
As Urban's greatest desire was that of a crusade against the Turks, the two parts signed a hasty peace, which was highly favourable to Visconti.
Another point was the crusade, which Frederick had promised but repeatedly postponed.
Himmler, declaring that the war in the east was a pan-European crusade to defend the traditional values of old Europe from the " godless Bolshevik hordes ", attracted volunteers from all over Europe for the Waffen-SS.

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) Hargis claimed to have written a speech for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, notable for his anti-Communist crusade.
This time, the player is at the controls of a RAH-66 Comanche in a crusade against Ibn Kilbaba, the son of General Kilbaba, who allies with a notable drug baron named Carlos Ortega to take his revenge on the United States.

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This success is ascribed by Alexios ' daughter Anna to his policy and diplomacy, but by the Latin historians of the crusade to his treachery and falseness.
In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.
The fragmentation of the Muslim east allowed for the initial success of the crusade, but as the 12th century progressed, the kingdom's Muslim neighbours were united by Nur ad-Din Zangi and Saladin, who vigorously began to recapture lost territory.
The 29 June 1456 papal bull of Callixtus III calling for a public prayer for the success of the crusade, makes no mention of the comet.
Urban IV endeavoured without success to stir up a crusade to restore the Latin Empire.
Between the 11th century ( when the Genoese ships played a major role in the first crusade, carrying knights and troops to the Middle-East for a fee ) and the 15th century, the Republic of Genoa experienced an extraordinary political and commercial success ( mainly spice trades with the Orient ).
When Innocent III's diplomatic attempts to roll back Catharism met with little success and after the murder of the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, Innocent III declared a crusade against Languedoc, offering the lands of the Cathar " heretics " to any French nobleman willing to take up arms.
In this agreement the Christians gained free trade with Tunis, and residence for monks and priests in the city was guaranteed, so the crusade could be regarded as a partial success.
The Catholic hierarchy and Manila's middle class were crucial to the success of the massive crusade.
* Military Heritage did a feature about the Muslim Turks versus Christian Nobility 1716 battle and crusade at Peterwardein, and the success of Prince Eugene of Savoy ( Ludwig Heinrich Dyck, Military Heritage, August 2005, Volume 7, No. 1, pp 48 to 53, and p. 78 ), ISSN 1524-8666.
It is debatable how much of the ultimate success of the crusade ( the most successful since the First in territorial terms ) was attributable to Theobald's intentions and how much was just fortuitous.
The success of the first crusade is at least in part attributable to the political confusion which resulted from Malikshah's death.
This success is ascribed by Alexios ' daughter Anna to his policy and diplomacy, but by the Latin historians of the crusade to his treachery and falseness.
Following the latter's success in winning Normandy from John Lackland of England, he was approached by Innocent III to lead the crusade himself but turned this down being heavily committed to defend his gains against John and against the emerging alliance between England, the Empire and Flanders.
Richard I visited the site in 1189 to pray for the success of his crusade, and Henry V was said by Adam of Usk to have travelled there on foot from Shrewsbury in 1416.
The two were about to attack Shaizar when they heard of the arrival of the First Crusade ; all the various alliances were disbanded and everyone returned to their own cities, though if any of the alliances had remained intact, or they had all worked together, they would likely have been able to prevent the success of the crusade.
The two were about to attack Shaizar when they heard of the arrival of the First Crusade ; all the various alliances were disbanded and everyone returned to their own cities, though if any of the alliances had remained intact, or they had all worked together, they would likely have been able to prevent the success of the crusade.
In this crusade Besant had considerable success, the establishment of The People's Palace in the East of London being one result.
There were perhaps only a few hundred knights left in Jerusalem by the end of the year, but they were gradually reinforced by new crusaders, inspired by the success of the original crusade.
He personally participated in the crusade against Egypt ; at one point he carried a relic of the True Cross, and prostrated himself with his head buried under the sand in order to ensure the success of the siege at Damietta.
Impressed with the success of the First Crusade, Saxons began calling for a crusade against their Slav neighbors.
After the success of the crusade, the German-and Danish-occupied territory was divided into feudal principalities by William of Modena.

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