Medieval Crusades

Crusade of Emico and Gotschalk

Additional army or horde of perhaps 20000 adjoined under the counsel of the count of Leiningen (Emico), a third under Gotschalk, a man not infamous for the purity or disinterestedness of his motivcs. Behindhand these came a rabble, it's said of 20000

Crusade of Peter the Hermit

Little more half the time allowed the accumulating of the crusaders had deceased, when a crowd of some 60000 men and women, neither affectionate nor entertaining the means by which their ends could be accomplished, insisted that the hermit should lea

Europe before The First Crusade