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Bookmark or Share- Children's Crusade - WikipediaThe 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. Although it is called the Children's Crusade, it never received the papal approval from Pope Innocent III to be an actual Crusade.
- Children's Crusade - World History EncyclopediaThe so-called Children's Crusade of 1212 CE, was a popular, double religious movement led by a French youth, Stephen of Cloyes, and a German boy, Nicholas of Cologne, who gathered two armies of perhaps 20,000 children, adolescents, and adults with the hopelessly optimistic objective of bettering the failures of the professional Crusader armies ...
- Children’s Crusade | European History, Religious ... - BritannicaChildren’s Crusade, popular religious movement in Europe during the summer of 1212 in which thousands of young people took Crusading vows and set out to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims. Lasting only from May to September, the Children’s Crusade lacked official sanction and ended in failure; none.
- Crusades - Children, Europe, Faith | BritannicaCrusades - Children, Europe, Faith: The Children's Crusade in 1212 was a popular movement that swept through the Rhineland. The movement included Nicholas from Cologne and thousands of children, adolescents, women, the elderly, the poor, and parish clergy.
- The Children's Crusade - History LearningAn exploration of the Children's Crusade of AD 1212, including the traditional narrative, as well as modern interpretations of the story.
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