Reasons for the crusades, 1095-1204 (OCR A-Level History A): Flashcards

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Crusading movement

Series of military campaigns vs Muslims in West Asia

Who popularised 'just war' concept?

St. Augustine of Hippo

Three conditions for just war

Just cause, legitimate authority, right intention

Just cause meaning

Previous aggression; Christian defense vs Muslims

Legitimate authority in just war

War authorised by popes/priests with God's power

Right intention in just war

Led by love & charity, not hatred

Pope Leo IX papacy year

1048

Simony definition

Buying & selling of spiritual offices

Cluniacs founder & year

William I, Duke of Aquitaine, 910

Pax Dei purpose

Prohibited nobles attacking churches, women, children; burning houses

Purgatory definition

Place where souls burnt after death due to sin

Peter the Hermit's crusade name

People's Crusade/Peasants' Crusade

Bernard of Clairvaux role

Cistercian abbot who preached Second Crusade

Who commissioned Bernard in 1144?

Eugenius III

Quantum praedecessores issuer & date

Pope Eugenius III, 1 December 1145

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