Pope Urban II
11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades · France · Religious Figures · Lived 1035 to 1099 · aged 64
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Something wrong?The pope who launched the Crusades. In 1095, Urban II stood before a council in Clermont and ignited a centuries-long collision between Christian Europe and the Islamic world - promising absolution to anyone who would march east to take Jerusalem.
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, Altars are profaned and broken, Christians tortured, women violated. ... Who will avenge these wrongs? On you, rests this duty, on you. ...
The church shall be catholic, chaste and free: catholic in faith and the communion of saints, chaste from all contagion of evil, and free from all secular power.
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Born Odo of Châtillon around 1035 into French nobility, he rose through the church as grand prior of Cluny and bishop of Ostia before becoming pope in March 1088. His papacy meant navigating rival antipopes, squabbling Christian kingdoms, and Turkish advances into Anatolia. Then in 1095 he began preaching what became the First Crusade, offering forgiveness of sins to those who would reclaim the Holy Land and fight Muslims in Spain. He also restructured the Roman Curia into something like a royal court, giving the papacy institutional shape that lasted. Jerusalem fell to the crusaders in 1099, but Urban died on 29 July that year before word reached him.
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