User:SalamanderGuy/Children's Crusade

Cory Harrison


 * 1) Believed to have come about from penitential procession
 * 2) Potentially add youths to ranks of Stephen of Cloys
 * 3) Add how Pope Innocent's view of a Christian Europe greatly influenced it due to its power

The crusade was believed to have originated from a penitential procession in Chartres (Allen, 2017). Pope Innocent believed that if people were to engage in processions and listened to his preaches, the war in the Holy Land would be more successful. After failing to part the ocean, the crusaders attempted to continue, but their progress was halted by lacking the resources they needed to cross the Levant (namely money) Pope declared that the children had shamed all of the Christian leaders after the crusade failed. The devotees of Nicholas and Stephen were known as pueri, which precisely means "children", but indirectly refers to the power less

https://www.history.com/news/the-disastrous-time-tens-of-thousands-of-children-tried-to-start-a-crusade

https://www.ancient.eu/Children%27s_Crusade/

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/25/archives/in-the-footsteps-of-a-childrens-crusade-lost-20-pounds.html