Death of Pope Urban II
July 29, 1099
The pope who had called the First Crusade died at Rome before news of Jerusalem's capture reached him. His successor would inherit the complicated legacy of a new Latin East to which Western Christendom was now committed by force of vow. Urban's Clermont sermon had opened a two-century chapter of armed pilgrimage that would reshape the relationship between Islam and Christianity permanently.
In context
Also in 1099 (7 other events on record)
- Jerusalem falls to the First Crusade · Middle East · War
- Crusaders reach Jerusalem · Middle East · Religion
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- Godfrey of Bouillon elected ruler of Jerusalem · Middle East · Politics
- Battle of Ascalon · Middle East · War
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Before and after in Europe
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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