Nicholas refused to say he was defeated and traveled to Pisa, his movement continuing to break up along the way. Most of the would-be Crusaders took up this opportunity. The Genoese authorities were impressed by the little band, and they offered citizenship to those who wished to settle in their city. A few accused Nicholas of betraying them, while others settled down to wait for God to change his mind, since they believed that it was unthinkable, he would not eventually do so. They immediately marched to the harbor, expecting the sea to divide before them when it did not many became bitterly disappointed. About 7,000 arrived in Genoa in late August. Two out of every three people on the journey died, while many others returned to their homes. Splitting into two groups, the crowds took different roads through Switzerland.
His disciples went off to preach the call for the "Crusade" across the German lands, and they massed in Cologne after a few weeks. Rather than intending to fight the Saracens, he said that the Muslim kingdoms would be defeated when their citizens converted to Christianity. Nicholas said that the sea would open up before them just as the Lord had done to the Israelites and allow his followers to cross into the Holy Land. In the first movement, Nicholas, a shepherd from the Rhineland in Germany, tried to lead a group across the Alps and into Italy in the early spring of 1212. The similarities of the two allowed later chroniclers to combine and embellish the tales. The pilgrims are then either taken to Tunisia, where they are sold into slavery by the merchants or else die in a shipwreck on San Pietro Island off Sardinia during a gale.Īccording to more recent researchers, there seem to have actually been two movements of people of all ages in 1212 in Germany and France.
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The children are sold to two merchants (Hugh the Iron and William of Posqueres), who give free passage on boats to as many of the children as are willing. He leads his followers south towards the Mediterranean Sea, in the belief that the sea would part on their arrival, which would allow him and his followers to walk to Jerusalem.
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Through a series of portents and miracles, he gains a following of up to 30,000 children. A boy begins to preach in either France or Germany, claiming that he had been visited by Jesus, who instructed him to lead a Crusade in order to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity. The variants of the long-standing story of the Children's Crusade have similar themes. The crusaders of the real events on which the story is based left areas of Germany, led by Nicholas of Cologne, and Northern France, led by Stephen of Cloyes.Īccounts Traditional accounts The traditional narrative is likely conflated from a mix of factual and mythical events, which include the preaching of visions by a French boy and a German boy, an intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity, bands of children marching to Italy, and children being sold into slavery in Tunis. Although it is called the Children's Crusade, it never received the papal approval from Pope Innocent III to be an actual Crusade. The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land, said to have taken place in 1212. For other uses, see Children's Crusade (disambiguation). This article is about the purported events of 1212.
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