Arisa Reacts to The First Crusade!

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Video number one is the first Crusade all parts by Epic History. It is 26 minutes long and we're going to watch this one so we can get gambling points for work. Love my job.

[00:00:11]>> [laughter] >> All right, let's go.

[00:00:15]Also, let me know if the volume's too loud.

[00:00:18]Osprey Osprey publishing >> In the Middle Ages, Europe and the Middle East were divided between Christian states or Christendom and Muslim states.

[00:00:30]They were uneasy neighbors and frequently at war. Woah, like the Crusades. On the front line, the Eastern Roman They were crusading, you could say. That's crazy.

[00:00:41]>> the major Christian power in the Eastern Mediterranean.

[00:00:46]But in the 11th century, a powerful new force emerged that threatened its very survival.

[00:00:53]Horses. Oh, you can't see.

[00:00:55]>> Turks, originally from Central Asia, I was making a joke about how converted to Sunni Islam and carved out a great empire >> Hold on. Hold on.

[00:01:05]>> [laughter] >> That joke doesn't make any sense because I'm literally covering it.

[00:01:13]>> [laughter] >> Hold on.

[00:01:16]I That joke doesn't make any sense because I'm literally in front of the horse.

[00:01:22]Jokes canceled. Everyone go home. Jokes canceled. Go home. Horses, haha.

[00:01:29]>> [laughter] >> In 1071, at the Battle of Manzikert, the Seljuk Turks inflicted a crushing defeat on the Byzantine Empire.

[00:01:39]That's how you pronounce that? I've been saying Byzantine. Is it not Byzantine?

[00:01:43]>> They went on to conquer most of Anatolia. Is it not the Byzantine Empire?

[00:01:47]>> Cities such as Nicaea and Antioch, Is it not the Byzantine Empire?

[00:01:52]>> fell to the Seljuk Turks.

[00:01:57]In 1092, the great Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah died and his empire began to fragment. Both acceptable. Okay, good.

[00:02:06]The Byzantine Empire came under renewed attack as local warlords sought to So, cuz I thought this was going to be another another Oceania incident.

[00:02:16]I thought this was going to be another Oceania incident where I've just been saying it wrong forever. I live here.

[00:02:22]Turns out it's Oceania. I still disagree.

[00:02:25]>> [laughter] >> territory and plunder.

[00:02:30]In 1095, Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus wrote to Pope Urban II >> Comnenus, that's a fun name to say.

[00:02:39]>> for military aid from his fellow Christians in the West.

[00:02:44]It wasn't the first such appeal by the emperor. I feel like I'm studying to play Crusader Kings better.

[00:02:49]>> unlike anything ever seen before.

[00:03:01]devolved >> Pope Urban saw the emperor's appeal as a golden opportunity.

[00:03:06]A chance to heal the rift that had emerged between Western and Eastern churches in the Great Schism.

[00:03:14]To assert his own papal authority over the unruly barons and bishops of Western Christendom.

[00:03:22]And to drive back the infidel. Pope said stop it.

[00:03:26]>> Christianity's most holy sites. The Pope said stop.

[00:03:29]>> all, Jerusalem, lost to Muslim rule 400 years before.

[00:03:35]Yeah, 400 years is a long time. I feel like in the grand scheme of history cuz you know, history spans like such a long way back that 400 years is like, "Oh yeah, that's not that's not very long, you know?" It doesn't feel like that long in comparison to the fact that, you know, we go our history goes back to the dinosaurs. We have evidence of of existence from millions of years ago. We have such wide expanse of history that you think, "Oh, 400 years is like not that much."

[00:04:03]400 years is like 1.5 Americas. Yeah, like Australia was only colonized in the 1700s. That's that's the whole time.

[00:04:12]>> [laughter] >> That's the time that they've just mentioned here is the whole time from like England's landing in Australia.

[00:04:23]That's the whole time.

[00:04:26]But 400 years feels so little when you think about, "Oh yeah, 400 years." in comparison to everything that's ever happened. But that's Anomalocaris lived 10 million times more. Yeah, that's History is so vast.

[00:04:40]And yet 400 feels like so much and so little at the same time. It's weird.

[00:04:46]>> Clermont in France, Pope Urban preached a sermon to a gathering of clergy and nobles.

[00:04:53]He called on Christian knights and foot soldiers to go east to aid their brother Christians and free Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Popes wouldn't so much historically.

[00:05:05]>> He offered a unique spiritual incentive.

[00:05:07]>> Imagine Imagine the Pope present day being like, "Damn.

[00:05:13]I just think it'd be really I just think it'd be really neat to make Disneyland a holy site, you know?"

[00:05:18]And they just go to war for it. Like he probably could just do that if he wanted cuz he's the Pope.

[00:05:26]The Pope could probably just decide he wanted a place and be like, "Yeah, it's it's war time, man. God It just God God just really wants Disneyland."

[00:05:34]>> [laughter] >> God just really wants like this specific river somewhere.

[00:05:43]I don't know.

[00:05:44]>> [laughter] >> The Pope giving unique spiritual incentive like gifting 10 levels of the battle pass.

[00:05:51]>> [snorts] >> Me gifting out my Pope battle pass.

[00:05:54]>> [laughter] >> Enlisting >> [gasps] >> Enlisting my holy war soldiers by promising battle pass skins.

[00:06:01]>> [laughter] >> Whoever for devotion alone >> will be filled with holy water, exactly.

[00:06:07]>> honor or money >> Exactly.

[00:06:09]goes to Jerusalem to liberate the church of God can substitute this journey for all penance.

[00:06:18]Damn.

[00:06:20]He was offering Europe's knights who lived in fear of damnation because of the violent lives they led the chance to atone for their sins >> That was a scene something.

[00:06:31]>> war. That was a scene something.

[00:06:33]>> their objective, Jerusalem, was a city that captivated the medieval imagination like no other.

[00:06:41]The most holy place on earth.

[00:06:44]They used to call those indulgences. You could literally buy God points to get out of hell [laughter] free.

[00:06:52]Fortnite level 1, hell. Fortnite level 10,000, heaven. You've got to You've got to buy the battle pass, man. You've got to buy the battle pass. It's me, the Pope.

[00:07:03]I'm glad that this is riveting content.

[00:07:06]>> [laughter] >> Hey. Hey guys, it's me, the Pope.

[00:07:10]It's me, guys, the Pope. It's me, guys, the Pope. If you buy If you buy the Holy Roman Empire If you buy the Holy War battle pass, it's me, the Pope.

[00:07:21]Buy the Holy War battle pass and you, too can reach the Holy Land.

[00:07:28]>> [laughter] >> For the low, low price of $19 a month you can buy my Pope battle pass and ascend to heaven.

[00:07:37]>> [laughter] >> Trust me, I'm the Pope. What's up, gamers? It's your boy, the Pope.

[00:07:42]>> [laughter] >> The Pope captivated to liberate We live in a We live in a reality where that's not unreasonable. Deus vult. Deus vult.

[00:07:51]God wills it.

[00:07:52]God wills it.

[00:07:55]What if the Pope started a Twitch channel?

[00:07:58]Sparking a wave of religious fervor.

[00:08:02]Thousands of lords, knights, and ordinary people vowed to travel to the Holy Land [music] and fight for Christ.

[00:08:13]I am getting flashbacks to Crusade Kings. by wearing a cross.

[00:08:17]Later becoming known as cruce signatus.

[00:08:21]Crusaders.

[00:08:23]Cuz I'm like I I hear Crusaders. I see that down view of the map and I'm like oh god I have like two I have like like two seconds on three times speed before they come and crusade my house.

[00:08:35]They're going to get me. They're going to get me. Please don't crusade my house.

[00:08:39]Please don't crusade my house. I don't know how to do war in that game.

[00:08:43]>> [laughter] >> I don't know how to do war in that game.

[00:08:45]They just keep taking my house.

[00:08:47]>> [crying] >> A few of these men saw opportunity in the East for fame and fortune.

[00:08:54]But overwhelmingly they went in search of spiritual salvation.

[00:08:58]>> face is broken again. Fantastic.

[00:08:59]>> undertake a long, expensive, and perilous journey to save their souls from the fires of hell. Yeah.

[00:09:14]I fixed it. The People's Crusade.

[00:09:17]>> had intended the Crusade to be led by nobles and made up of knights and experienced soldiers.

[00:09:26]But the viral success of his appeal led thousands of ordinary townsfolk and peasants to take the cross.

[00:09:33]Many inspired by a French priest known as Peter the Hermit. Peter the the leader of the so-called People's [laughter] Crusade.

[00:09:43]Peter the Hermit's kind of got that drip on.

[00:09:44]>> [music] >> This guy is going viral, guys. Guys is going viral. Fired up by old prejudices and talk of holy war, attacked local Jewish communities, slaughtering around 5,000 [music] men, women, and children and extorting money from those they spared. It got very serious all of a sudden and now I >> were condemned by the I can't continue the >> but to little effect. I can't continue the Pope Twitch chat joke right now.

[00:10:10]It's gotten too serious. We're going [music] to have to wait a minute.

[00:10:12]>> of 1096, the People's Crusade, 20 to 40,000 strong, made its way >> serious. I don't want to make a joke about the the slaughter.

[00:10:22]The main contingent, led by Peter the Hermit, traveled along the River Danube.

[00:10:28]But they were ill-disciplined and poorly prepared.

[00:10:32]When they ran out of food in Hungary, they attacked and looted Christian settlements.

[00:10:39]They continued to pillage the land of their [laughter] supposed ally, the Byzantine Empire. Yeah.

[00:10:46]When they reached Constantinople, the emperor quickly ferried them to They got hungry. They got hungry. Damn, you're right. to get rid of them.

[00:10:54]In enemy territory, lacking discipline or leadership, their main force was soon ambushed and slaughtered by the Turks. They tried to They tried to send a Twitch raid.

[00:11:08]No, wait. They tried to send a YouTube redirect.

[00:11:11]They tried to send a YouTube redirect, but they had the setting disabled, so they couldn't go. It's so sad. feudal lords were departing for the Holy Land at the head of their own contingents.

[00:11:23]They were much better armed and organized than the disastrous People's Crusade.

[00:11:28]Soundtrack goes crazy.

[00:11:30]>> [laughter] >> They included from Lorraine, Godfrey of Bouillon with his brothers Eustace and Baldwin of Boulogne, Hugh of Vermandois, >> younger brother of the French [laughter] king, What is Worms?

[00:11:48]It's city Worms?

[00:11:49]>> of Flanders, and Duke Robert of Normandy, I want to visit Worms.

[00:11:54]>> the Conqueror, the wealthy Stephen of Blois, >> to visit Worms.

[00:12:00]from Provence, Count Raymond of Toulouse, accompanied by the Crusade's spiritual leader, Papal Legate Adhemar of Le Puy. Le Puy.

[00:12:12]And from Southern Italy, Norman lords Bohemond of Taranto, and his nephew Tancred.

[00:12:20]The various contingents converged for their agreed rendezvous at Constantinople.

[00:12:27]Constantinople, Constantinople, >> a huge I have never seen so many strong probably the largest seen in Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

[00:12:37]>> Yeah, that's wild.

[00:12:40]The Byzantine Emperor Alexius had expected to welcome a small force of Western mercenaries who'd serve under Byzantine command.

[00:12:49]>> in Germany?

[00:12:51]But the giant Crusader force that began arriving in December 1096 >> fun if it's Worms.

[00:12:56]>> made him nervous and distrustful, particularly the presence of Bohemond of Taranto, who'd spent much of his life attacking the Byzantine Empire.

[00:13:08]Alexius gave the Crusaders money, supplies, and guides, but only after their leaders swore oaths of fealty and promised to return all Byzantine territory to the emperor, not keep it for themselves. There's no way they're going with that, right?

[00:13:25]>> Only then were they ferried across the Bosphorus into Anatolia. That very much feels like a yeah, yeah, dude, trust me kind of deal.

[00:13:34]>> were [laughter] a mighty military force, particularly the armored knights, who made up about a sixth of their strength. The horses are back. But they'd have to adapt rapidly to the heat, Ooh, yeah.

[00:13:47]>> terrain, and hit-and-run tactics of their Turkish enemy.

[00:13:54]In their favor, the Islamic world and the Great Seljuk Empire itself was badly divided.

[00:14:03]Its Turkish governors, or atabegs, were busy fighting each other, as well as the Shia Fatimids of Egypt.

[00:14:12]None of them was prepared for the First Crusade, or had any real understanding of its strength or aims. Yeah.

[00:14:26]Dorylaeum, Dorylaeum, Dorylaeum.

[00:14:29]>> Crusaders' first success came at Nicaea, which fell after a 6-week siege.

[00:14:36]But the city surrendered to the Byzantine forces, cheating the Crusaders, as they saw it, of their rightful plunder.

[00:14:45]It was a further strain on the delicate relations between Crusaders and Byzantines.

[00:14:53]They began marching inland through intense summer heat >> goes crazy. in two columns, a vanguard under Bohemond of Taranto, and rear guard under Godfrey of Bouillon. I wish all history lessons had a soundtrack.

[00:15:09]>> Bohemond's vanguard was demolished by the main Turkish army. What is this spinning into the fate timeline? That's crazy.

[00:15:20]Based on Crusader chronicles, this is our best understanding of how the confused fighting unfolded.

[00:15:32]Bohemond, seeing he was about to be attacked by a large force of enemy cavalry, sent an urgent message to the rearguard asking for assistance.

[00:15:42]>> Oh, there he goes.

[00:15:43]>> [laughter] >> Goodbye.

[00:15:44]>> formed up his knights and ordered his infantry into a defensive formation behind them protecting the camp followers.

[00:15:54]The Crusaders came under attack from all sides facing a hail of arrows from Turkish horse archers as well as javelins and hit-and-run strikes from their faster light cavalry.

[00:16:09]The knights were driven back onto their own infantry.

[00:16:14]Over several hours, losses mounted.

[00:16:17]But the Crusader line held.

[00:16:20]Damn, that was the guy they sent off.

[00:16:21]He's got to lock in. Godfrey was racing off with the rearguard to join the battle. See, I said he's got to lock in.

[00:16:27]There he is.

[00:16:28]>> Troops were fed into the fighting as soon as they arrived.

[00:16:32]On the Turks' left flank, the Crusader advance was hidden by the terrain so that they appeared suddenly threatening the Turks with encirclement.

[00:16:44]When the Christian knights all charged together, the Turks panicked, turned, and fled.

[00:16:51]There they go.

[00:16:53]It was a major victory for the Crusaders and that allowed them to continue their advance across Anatolia without serious opposition.

[00:17:08]At Heraclea, they defeated a small Turkish force, then split up.

[00:17:14]Oh.

[00:17:16]The main force struggled through the mountains of Cappadocia, losing many of their baggage animals, and running dangerously low on supplies.

[00:17:25]>> No.

[00:17:26]The horses. No.

[00:17:29]Meanwhile, Baldwin of Boulogne and Tancred, probably out to seize land and establish their own states, >> efficient way to go.

[00:17:37]>> traveled south into Cilicia, capturing the city of Tarsus and other settlements. Take a boat. Don't go through the mountains.

[00:17:45]>> Tancred later rejoined the main army.

[00:17:49]But Baldwin was invited by local Armenian Christians to travel to Edessa, where he was soon installed as Count Baldwin of Edessa, ruler of the first Crusader state.

[00:18:03]They were just like, "Hey, man. Come here. Come here.

[00:18:05]>> 10, 1097, the rest of the Crusaders reached Antioch, >> the first Christian settlement stone >> on the road to Jerusalem.

[00:18:15]But outside its walls, Listen, I'm just saying, the first Crusade had come to the brink of disaster, Could you not have sailed out?

[00:18:23]>> and starvation, and encircled by their enemies.

[00:18:27]It would take a miracle to save them from annihilation.

[00:18:35]Oh.

[00:18:36]October 10, 1097. We're going to cut scene. Two years had passed since Pope Urban II preached a crusade to help the Byzantine Empire in its war against the Seljuk Turks.

[00:18:49]Now, the First Crusade had reached the great city of Antioch.

[00:18:54]It was the last major Turkish stronghold standing between the Crusade and its goal, the holy city of Jerusalem.

[00:19:05]But Antioch was virtually impregnable, with its citadel all a 1,000-ft mountain, and too large to encircle.

[00:19:15]The giant Crusader army could only camp outside its walls and pray for a miracle.

[00:19:22]But that winter, they ran out of food.

[00:19:26]Horses, men, and camp followers began to starve.

[00:19:30]>> Could Could they not have like waited? A trickle of supplies continued to arrive >> getting these different territories set up and they're like, "Okay, six months, let's go straight to Jerusalem." And then they >> an attempt by Ridwan of Aleppo to break the siege at the Battle of Lake Antioch.

[00:19:48]But the Crusaders' situation seemed hopeless.

[00:19:52]Morale fell as deaths and desertions rose [music] steadily.

[00:19:59]In March, a Crusader fleet arrived with much-needed reinforcements and supplies.

[00:20:06]Finally, one night, Bohemond of Taranto and 60 of his men scaled a tower on the southern wall.

[00:20:14]>> don't don't do me like the speed run is crazy.

[00:20:17]As dawn >> Power of the who sisters. Bohemond's men opened the city gates and the Crusader army poured in.

[00:20:28]They massacred soldiers and civilians alike while desperate Muslim survivors fled to the citadel, which continued to resist all attacks.

[00:20:40]>> [music] >> Damn.

[00:20:42]Antioch That was a crazy citadel.

[00:20:44]But now, a giant Turkish army was assembled under the command of Kerbogha, governor of Mosul.

[00:20:53]First, he attacked Baldwin in Edessa, but abandoned his siege after 3 weeks.

[00:21:01]3 weeks, my gosh.

[00:21:02]>> Antioch.

[00:21:06]The Crusader army was exhausted, starving, and now trapped. Elbowzos. They could expect no help from the Byzantines.

[00:21:16]>> Lmao.

[00:21:16]>> Emperor Alexius, busy securing his own territory in Anatolia, had received false reports that the crusade had already been destroyed.

[00:21:26]Fearing a Turkish counterattack, he withdrew to Constantinople.

[00:21:30]That sounds smart. I don't know.

[00:21:32]>> [laughter] >> Inside Antioch, a relic >> hadn't been defeated. I don't know, man.

[00:21:37]Go home.

[00:21:38]>> Supposedly The other guys who didn't go home seem to be not having a good time.

[00:21:42]of his crucifixion, and the crusaders' faith in their holy mission was renewed.

[00:21:50]Although heavily outnumbered, the crusaders decided to meet the Muslim army outside the city walls.

[00:21:59]Three weeks isn't even that long of a siege. Yeah, I guess not.

[00:22:01]>> religious [laughter] visions of saints and angels, they charged the Muslim army, which turned and fled. Don't turn and flee. You can take them. Kerbogha, accusing his commanders of treachery, >> There's so little. possibly correct, >> a lot of them there. set fire to his camp and withdrew.

[00:22:27]>> All right.

[00:22:29]The Muslim defenders in the citadel, witnessing this stunning victory, quickly surrendered. I don't know if that was a stunning victory so much as a >> [laughter] >> I don't know if that was a stunning victory so much as a embarrassing loss on the other army's part, you know?

[00:22:46]Fatimids forces from Egypt captured Jerusalem from the Artuqid Turks.

[00:22:52]Al-Afdal, grand vizier or chief minister of Egypt, saw the Seljuk Turks as his greatest enemy, and even tried to make an alliance with the Crusaders against them.

[00:23:05]But the Crusaders were not interested.

[00:23:10]Instead, they spent 5 months around Antioch foraging supplies and arguing among themselves. It feels like 90% of the Crusaders thus far have just been friendly fire.

[00:23:21]>> Vermandois, had already given up and returned home.

[00:23:25]Now, Bohemond of Taranto claimed the former Byzantine city of Antioch for himself, breaking his oath to Emperor Alexius, to They saw a bunch of religious crazy soldiers running full force at a force twice their size and decided they don't mess with crazy. You know what?

[00:23:42]That's fair. turn over such territories to him.

[00:23:46]Bohemond argued that the emperor had broken the oath first by failing to help the Crusaders during the siege.

[00:23:55]Divisions deepened after Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy died from illness.

[00:24:01]Le Puy.

[00:24:02]I just like saying that name.

[00:24:03]>> leader and a unifying presence on their council.

[00:24:09]Meanwhile, Crusaders carried out a brutal massacre of civilians at Ma'arrat al-Nu'man.

[00:24:18]Pressure from the mass of ordinary Crusaders forced their leaders to put aside their differences and march south towards Jerusalem.

[00:24:26]>> god, they actually got the army to lock in.

[00:24:28]>> Except for Bohemond, who remained in Antioch, where he declared himself prince.

[00:24:34]Yeah, you would.

[00:24:36]As the Crusaders entered Fatimid territory, many local rulers offered up money and supplies to avoid violence.

[00:24:45]Other villages had been abandoned.

[00:24:48]As the Crusaders neared Jerusalem, they found wells poisoned, trees cut down, and animals driven away.

[00:24:57]Anything that could help the Crusaders had been destroyed. And like what did they expect? On the 7th of June, 1099, the Crusaders got their first sight of Jerusalem.

[00:25:10]There it is.

[00:25:11]>> Many fell to their knees and wept with joy.

[00:25:15]>> [laughter] >> But they faced a serious challenge.

[00:25:19]>> They were now reduced to about 12,000 fighting men, not enough to encircle the city.

[00:25:25]>> And they were running out of food and water. Then why did they keep going?

[00:25:29]Jerusalem would have to be taken by storm.

[00:25:37]There were at least two crusades that were entirely children.

[00:25:40]What? There were what?

[00:25:44]When? When was this?

[00:25:47]What era was this?

[00:25:50]The barren landscape >> There's none of you.

[00:25:52]>> had no timber to build with. Go home.

[00:25:56]>> And on the 13th of June, their first assault with a single scaling ladder was easily repulsed.

[00:26:03]Shock horror. Four days later, six Genoese galleys arrived at Jaffa, where they were soon blockaded by the powerful Fatimid fleet.

[00:26:13]So, the sailors took apart their ships and carried the timber to the siege at Jerusalem.

[00:26:21]The Crusaders foraged more wood from the surrounding land, enough to build two siege towers.

[00:26:31]These mobile wooden structures would be wheeled up to the outer wall and allow the Crusaders to directly assault the enemy battlements.

[00:26:41]They said we got 12,000 men, a bunch of planks of wood, and a dream.

[00:26:46]>> [laughter] >> What is that? What is that?

[00:26:52]>> [laughter] [gasps] >> Guys, you were You were only a couple hundred years out of the Trojan horse. You couldn't have You couldn't have made it look cooler? I don't know. That's just me.

[00:27:09]That's just me.

[00:27:10]>> [laughter] >> That's just me. That's just me. I don't know. Crusaders? Incompetent, crazy, religious zealots? What would make you think that? I know, that's crazy.

[00:27:19]>> [laughter] >> That's crazy. I don't know.

[00:27:25]Child soldiers as renewable resources is crazy. That's wild. One ladder, religious intent. Yeah. They just said, "You know what? What if us and this ladder is enough?" And they just shoved it back. No, no, no.

[00:27:38]Ladder's not enough.

[00:27:39]Figure out a new one. And they said, "Okay, big ladder?"

[00:27:43]Ladder a bit bigger this time?

[00:27:45]Small ladder didn't work. Let's build a ladder that's uh several stories tall?

[00:27:51]Ladder [snorts] with case around the side?

[00:27:54]Okay, man.

[00:27:56]>> [laughter] >> Okay, man.

[00:28:01]One of the groups that tried to go to the Crusaders followed a goose that was filled with the Holy Spirit. And it went about as well as following a goose would go.

[00:28:07]Literally a wild goose chase.

[00:28:10]Is that where the saying wild goose chase comes from? Was that more of a prophecy?

[00:28:14]>> [laughter] >> Big ladder on wheels. Literally big ladder on wheels. They said, "Okay, small ladder didn't work. Second ladder.

[00:28:21]What if the ladder had an ombre on?"

[00:28:23]What if the ladder had a little suit that it wore?

[00:28:27]What if the ladder wore a little suit?

[00:28:29]>> was stationed with Raymond of Toulouse's forces in the southwest.

[00:28:34]They're about 2,500 years from Trojan horse. Yeah, you know, a couple.

[00:28:38]A couple. [laughter] On the 8th of July, seeking God's aid in the impending assault, the entire crusade walked in procession around the city finishing with a religious service on the Mount of Olives.

[00:28:54]Big ladder didn't work. They said, "Please, please, please, please, please."

[00:28:58]>> his siege tower to a less well-defended section of the city walls. They said, "What if we move the ladder this time?"

[00:29:04][music] What if we simply move the ladder?

[00:29:09]>> began on the 15th of July, 1099.

[00:29:14]>> There was no one like, "Damn, we should really keep an eye on those guys with the [music] giant ladder."

[00:29:18]>> [laughter] >> Godfrey of Bouillon's troops managed to fight their way across from their tower onto the city walls establishing a bridgehead.

[00:29:28]Soon, they were inside the city. I guess I can't make fun of big ladder that much. I guess it worked.

[00:29:34]>> and pure bloodlust, I guess big ladder worked.

[00:29:38]butchering soldiers and civilians, Jews and Muslims.

[00:29:43]>> big hard to push away.

[00:29:46]It was an orgy of shocking, prolonged slaughter, barbaric, but not unique for the age. Yeah, that sounded about par for the course. I don't know. It sounds like they were doing that the whole way here, too.

[00:29:58]>> had secured its goal in the face of overwhelming odds.

[00:30:04]And just 4 weeks The group that followed the goose started in England and made it to somewhere in Germany.

[00:30:12]What was that What was that goose doing?

[00:30:16]What was that goose doing? These guys took hopes and prayers a little too literally.

[00:30:21]Yeah, they were they were Yeah.

[00:30:23]Yeah. Are you letting things be natural on my stream? Absolutely not.

[00:30:27]>> [laughter] >> What I'm learning here is that historically, they were trying the exact same tactics that I was. [laughter] Small ladder didn't work. Big ladder time is exactly the kind of thing that I would do.

[00:30:39]>> [laughter] >> I'm learning nothing. weeks later, at the Battle of Ascalon, the crusader smashed the Fatimid relief army sent to recapture Jerusalem.

[00:30:51]Most Crusaders, their vows fulfilled, soon returned home to Europe.

[00:30:57]Only around 300 knights remained to defend Jerusalem under Godfrey of Bouillon, now named defender of the Holy Sepulchre.

[00:31:07]The man who'd set these great events in motion, Pope Urban II, did not live to hear the news that Jerusalem had been taken. I'm not shocked by this. Popes were dropping like flies.

[00:31:19]You know how many popes there have been?

[00:31:21]A lot.

[00:31:22]There's been a lot of popes.

[00:31:26]There's been a lot of popes.

[00:31:30]County of Edessa. Oh, seven stream of popes.

[00:31:35]He graduated.

[00:31:38]>> [gasps and laughter] >> The pope's gra- Sorry, the pope's having his graduation stream.

[00:31:43]The pope's having his graduation stream, sorry.

[00:31:46]Do you know how many Pope Urbans there were? There were I know Yeah, there was a lot of popes that specifically got ousted for like the same reason as well. I know there were a lot of popes that got fired from papacy for like the same reason. There are dedicated Wikipedia sections for how they were ousted.

[00:32:05]>> [laughter] >> That pope got terminated. Oh, yeah, it was not a graduation stream. He got fired.

[00:32:12]>> [laughter] >> The pope graduated to his new unit in heaven.

[00:32:17]Sorry, pope is the pope graduated.

[00:32:20]Sorry, the pope graduated. Uh he But, you know, in the white background black text Twitter post kind of way, you know? The pope got gifted Undertale. Yeah. Yeah, Pope Francis got a copy of Undertale, and there's a photo of it.

[00:32:33]>> [laughter] >> The Muslim world would not remain so catastrophically divided for long.

[00:32:41]Soon it would unleash its own holy war against the Crusader states, turning the Holy Land into a battleground for almost two centuries.

[00:32:51]Like you could just go home.

[00:32:53]In response, know, man.

[00:32:55]200 years feels like a lot. You can just go home.

[00:32:58]>> But none would ever repeat the bloody spectacular success of the First Crusade.

[00:33:06]Research and artwork for this video comes from Osprey Publishing's extensive range of books on medieval >> nice way to do credits. I like this.

[00:33:14]>> Every Osprey book examines a particular battle, campaign, or combat unit in authoritative, meticulous detail.

[00:33:22]And with more than 3,000 titles, Oh, it's a sponsorship.

[00:33:26]>> [laughter] >> Oh, they're doing a sponsorship. That's a fun little way to do a sponsorship.

[00:33:31]That's a fun little way to do a sponsorship integration. I like that.

[00:33:35]I like that. Oh, that's the whole thing.

[00:33:37]That's the whole thing.

[00:33:39]If you'd like to find out how you can support the channel, >> That didn't feel as long as it was. That did not feel like 26 minutes. please visit our Patreon page by clicking the link. I like how that guy says Patreon.

[00:33:50]A Patreon link.

[00:33:51]So, does the Pope [laughter] share a Steam account? Or Pope Leo needed a new copy.

[00:33:58]Sorry, someone's got to give Pope Leo a copy of Undertale as well. Uh Pope Francis forgot to leave uh Pope Francis did not leave his Steam account in the will. I'm sorry.

[00:34:06]>> [laughter] >> When you just start making your sponsorship integrations as weird and silly as possible, yeah, I'm going to I'm going to recreate exactly this sponsorship integration, but it will have none of the appropriate context.

[00:34:18][laughter] >> [gasps] >> Uh it's nice to sponsorship sponsorship integration. Yeah, that was a fun way to do it. I like that it doubled as credits. That's neat. I like that.

[00:34:29]Yeah, that was the that was the First Crusade all parts.

[00:34:33]That was the first crusade, all parts.