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The People's Crusade was the forgotten and tragic prelude to the First Crusade. Long before knights and kings marched toward the Holy Land, a small barefoot preacher named Peter the Hermit convinced tens of thousands of ordinary people—farmers, blacksmiths, widows, and children—that God had personally called them to journey to Jerusalem. They had no army, no supplies, and no real plan. Drift off tonight to the full, gentle telling of how a peasant movement swept across medieval Europe, how it turned tragically against Jewish communities in the Rhineland, how it clashed with the Hungarians and Byzantines along the Danube, and how it finally met its end on the road to Nicaea, ambushed by the Turkish Sultan Kilij Arslan. Topics covered: Pope Urban II and the Council of Clermont • Peter the Hermit • the Rhineland massacres • the journey along the Danube • Hungary and Belgrade • Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Constantinople • the camp at Civetot • the Battle of Civetot • Kilij Arslan and the Sultanate of Rum • the road to the First Crusade #PeoplesCrusade #MedievalHistory #FirstCrusade