1. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lesson you will be able to...
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*

2. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*
This lesson we are going
To be looking at the
People's Crusade.
What were the reasons
For its failure?
How far did it lay the
Groundwork for a
Successful First
Crusade?

3. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*
The Peoples Crusade
- Numbered 30-60,000
- Only 10% Knights
- Poorly armed but deeply convinced
Of God's leadership.
- Left in April 1096, four months
Before Urban had planned!
Key themes of the People's Crusade
- Anti Semitism
- Poorly provisioned
- Massacres in Speyer, Mainz, Trier,
Cologne.
- Forced conversions led to suicides.
- Problems in Nish.
- They are rushed through Europe.
Upon Arrival
- Alexios dismayed when they reach Constantinople.
- Seljuks unconcerned by the “Franj”.
- Kilij Arslan easily crushes Peoples Crusade.
21st October Battle of Civetot. Geoffrey
Burel eggs on.

4. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*
Say hello to...Peter the Hermit! c
- A preacher who may have been at Clermont. Jesus
Had appeared to him personally!
- Appealed to the untrained and disorganised.
- Led People's Crusade with Walter
the Penniless.
- “He was surrounded by such crowds
Of people, given such gifts, and so
Acclaimed for his holiness that I
Remember no one ever having been
Held in such honour. Whatever he did or
Said was regarded as divine.”

5. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*
What were the key consequences of the People's Crusade?
- Kilij Arslan underestimated all subsequent “Frankish” armies.
- Taught that Crusades needed to be a fully armed expedition.
- Showed piety and fervour alone would not be enough to take
Jerusalem.
- Placed Peter the Hermit in Constantinople, ready to rejoin
With the main Crusader army.

6. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
Task: Using p of Fulcher of Chartres, you need to chart the
Course of the People's Crusade – you may need an Atlas to help!
Challenge
- Which is the turning
point?
- What were the key
mistakes?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*

7. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*

8. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*

9. LO: How significant was the People's Crusade?
- Describe the People's Crusade E-D
- Explain its importance and the role of Peter the Hermit C-B
- Judge how far it was significant to the First Crusade A-A*