Council of Clermont calls the First Crusade
November 27, 1095
At an open-air sermon in a French field, Pope Urban II called on Western knights to liberate Jerusalem and promised remission of sins for those who went. The crowd roared back, Deus vult, God wills it. It was the most consequential speech of the medieval papacy and the ignition of holy war.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.