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Sources to look into

Baldwin, Marshall W. “Some Recent Interpretations of Pope Urban II's Eastern Policy.” The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 25, no. 4, 1940, pp. 459–466. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25013850

Munro, Dana Carleton. “The Speech of Pope Urban II. At Clermont, 1095.” The American Historical Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1906, pp. 231–242. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1834642.

Gabriele, Matthew. “The Last Carolingian Exegete: Pope Urban II, the Weight of Tradition, and Christian Reconquest.” Church History, vol. 81, no. 4, 2012, pp. 796–814., www.jstor.org/stable/23358681.

I propose making changes to the second to last paragraph in the first crusade section

In the letters to Bologna and Vallombrosa he refers to the crusaders' desire to set out for Jerusalem rather than to his own desire that Jerusalem be freed from Muslim rule. It was believed that originally that Urban wanted to send a relatively small force to aid the Byzantines, however after meeting with two prominent members of the crusades Adhemar of Puy and Raymond of Saint-Guilles, Urban decided to rally a much larger force to retake Jerusalem.

Edits at the end of the First crusade

There were also many who believed that Pope Urban hoped to heal the divide between the East and West churches created during the Great Schism by sending military aid to the east. The divide was something that Urban had wanted to heal for most of his papacy however the actions of the crusaders throughout most of the crusades would only create more tension between the east and west.

The crusades would also help unite the various christian factions who had spend the past few centuries fighting with each other in a united defense against the muslims and would strenghten Urban's legitimacy as the pope.

Edits at the intro

As the Pope he would have to deal with many issues including the anti-pope Clement III, infighting of various christian nations, and the Muslim incursions into Europe.