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knight is going up to the castle. There is not really a lot to tell in this picture, but it just shows a knight going up to a castle on his horse i n the dark middle ages. || In this picture the Urban II proposed to the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont, from a 15th-century miniature. The Crusade movement began in 1095 when the Pope Urban II preached at the Council of Clermont for Christian knights to take up the cross to aid the Byzantine Empire against the Seljuk Turks the Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the, which was held from November 18 to November 28.The first phase, that was known as "the People's Crusade or Peasants' Crusade", was probably not what the pope had in mind. Led by a preacher named Peter the Hermit and a knight known as Walter the Penniless, many commoners heeded the pope's call. ||
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 * This picture demonstrates the dark middle ages. In the picture, the