Þa Crusaed

Þa Crusaed  wǣron gehwæt of gebedda wiðerweard, gewylde, ond hwæt wið sio Cristendom Læden Cyric on þǣm middangearde tid. Sē mæst geǣntra þāra hēahhæddes cempǣðe synt þā to þæm Halgan Æþelond betwēon 1095 ond 1291 þe hæfdon þæt wielde to reċoncering Ierusalem ond his onholde of mūslim weald þā æfter þǣm eard hæfde wiðerweard geāþ enstyrrade fram þǣm Rashidun Hālefate hundgearum formas. Ongynnend wið þǣm Fyrste Crusade, þæt geneaht wæs tō þǣm gewinnan Ierusalem in 1099, þrēoþe hæfted hæfdon, forðryhte geþingas gefremed, ōfercyning ǣgðerwīse for ealdum tidum. Crusading forēódigo hraðe æfter þǣm fēowertīene þācentu mid þǣm fealle Constantinople tō þǣm Ottomum.

On 1095, æfter Byzantine biddan for fultum, Papan Urban II gecwæð þæt forma forðfæreð on þeahtra of Clermont. He ætserede militan fultum for Byzantine cyning Alexios I Komnenos and clypode for armedig pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Ofer eallum folc-streawum on Westen Europan, ðær wæs an eargæd response. Dæled wæron of eallum Europan and hæfdon manigfealdne æmne. Þas onfēngon geleafa hālignesse, ðeostfælunga cynn, þearfa for wuldre, and feoh or cynging leohte. Lætra forðfæreð wæron wyrcan þurh swiðe gemetfulle here, hwæt ferdeon by cyninge. Eall wæron geseald papal geðygd. Ær þǣm swyðe gerædnessum wæron fore cwenes landas: Ædessa, Antiochia, Ierusālim, and Tripolis. Ænlic cyneþēod hæfde ǣfre biswican on þǣm gemæne þās mæg ǣr ǣfen ǣlce miccle cēap fædes. Æfter þissum, nā þǣre mæste milde hēafod þēodscyld cyngen wyrþen.