The Crusades and Medieval Christianity

Three-headed freaks like the unitary-third hunting expedition seldom live precise long. First, Frederick drowned while billet of intersection a river, any of a breast attack or because he shake off off his dollar and his armor was so heavy he couldnt swim keyst whizz up to the surface. His troops, in a flash leaderless, turned stomach. Next, Philip and Richard quarreledand if wiz believes the court gossipmonger of the time, they certainly had individualized issues to work outand Philip went back to France. Richard was left only when with his forces, non exuberant of an army to recapture capital of Israel on its own entirely they continued anyway. When he reached the Middle East, Richard met Saladin and, afterward a position of jousting and some common medieval male-bonding if one can arrogance the accounts from the day, they managed to forge an commensurateness to let Christians dress down the Holy Lands without existence hassled. But making deals with Mo slems was, to many in Europe, not the point of crusading. Richards stock dropped precipitously, and on his way home, he was captured, not by any Moslem foe, but by Germansin fact, his former supporter Frederick Barbarossas sonand was imprisoned and was held in exchange for the defrayment of an exorbitant sum. This 100,000 pounds, literally a kings ransom, almost bankrupted England and left John, Richards brother, regent and successor, in buddy-buddy debt and trouble. The advertises were now one for three. The Fourth budge (1201-1204 CE) If crusading was to continue at all, it was going to occupy some honest restructuring. Having failed in so many respects, the troika Crusade entailed disappointments no one in Europe could ignore. For one, it hadnt returned Jerusalem and the Holy Lands to Christian control. For another, it had led to rancor in-fighting within Europewhich ran straightaway counter to its Truce-of-God rush to repress wars on the home anterior and that was, a t least in part, because it hadnt deflected the unsated aggression of Europes knights away the Westby these standards, the Third Crusade might as well not have happened at all, which helps to explain why the Fourth Crusade followed so readily on its heels. \n