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The many Crusades fought in medieval Europe

The many Crusades fought in medieval Europe

Crusaders weren't just in the Holy Land - they were in Spain and the Baltics

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Tony McMahon
Mar 25, 2021
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Hear the word ‘crusade’ and you think of Templars fighting Saracens in the Holy Land. Maybe a scene from the movie Kingdom of Heaven comes to mind. But at the start of the 13th century there were multiple crusades raging across Europe. And the Popes in Rome had intriguing ways of getting people to go and fight in them.

The Iberian Crusade against the Moo…

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