Fifth Crusade called by Innocent III
1211
The pope proclaimed a new crusade to retake Jerusalem, preached across Europe by itinerant clergy. Fundraising innovations, including a church tax on clergy, set precedents that would be reused by later popes to squeeze Christendom for money. The crusade would not depart in earnest until 1217, and its failure in the Nile Delta only deepened the growing disillusionment with papal military adventures.
In context
Also in 1211 (3 other events on record)
- Mongols invade the Jin dynasty of north China · East Asia · War
- Reims cathedral construction begins · Europe · Culture
- Alfonso II begins the Portuguese Reconquista push · Europe · War
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.