What Happened when Children tried to go on a Crusade?

The Children’s Crusade. Some depict it as a holy war with children at the centre, others as a movement by a few individuals that could not be truly classified as a crusade, as it was not officially authorised by the church.
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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Natasha Martell
Narrator:
Chris Kane
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The Children's Crusade Author(s): Dana C. Munro Source: The American Historical Review , Apr., 1914, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Apr., 1914), pp. 516- 524 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association
The Children's Crusade Joseph E. Hansbery
The Catholic Historical Review
Vol. 24, No. 1 (Apr., 1938), pp. 30-38 (9 pages)
Published By: Catholic University of America Press
God's War: A New History of the Crusades Paperback - 4 Oct. 2007
by Christopher Tyerman

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Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” and they took it literally. 💀

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[@erik8727]

In the Netherlands there is a book called "Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek", translated it means "Crusade in Jeans". It is based on the story of Nicolas. Where a boy from then the 80s, ends up in the crusade after an accident with a timemachine. This book is very long and details all the "adventures" the kids went through. To me it was and is a treasured childhood memory reading this book.

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Sounds allot like a " A Yankee in king Arthur's court"

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[@Noperare]

Peasant: sure why not? I will hang out with lil'moses

[@RazorsharpLT]

They weren't as common as you think This is why, yknow - these are written in history. I'm certain there were more than one hunger inducded madness episodes of a person thinking he's the new prophet or moses and asking people to join him on his journey. We just know about the "Successful" ones. The scarier thought is what kind of charisma and conviction they had to have in order to do such things and succeed.

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I had to do a presentation on this in 8th grade, and it was so dreary to discover the fates of these kids

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Wow...what a lie/bs in the opening sentences...the crusades were not out to conquer to anything but they were the response to the systematic genocides of Christians and all other peoples committed by islam as it spread from the desert onwards. You can not conquer that which is/was yours. Remember kids, everywhere there is islam it is because it killed what was there before, wherever it goes, all else dies. Convert or die, the devils doing. Look at any history time/place and you will find this is true and historical data is best data.

[@civilengineer3349]

I think that the European warm period, prior to the Black Death, had given Europe a population boom. However, this resulted in a big number of landless unskilled young men at a time when fertile land and skill in a trade was needed to make a living, so they were easily swayed to any fanatical cause by charismatic leaders

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[@mrkonski833]

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[@jayyvonkush1941]

It's funny how we have the same situation with Joe Biden and the ukraine.

[@ko7305]

Wow...what a lie/bs in the opening sentences...the crusades were not out to conquer to anything but they were the response to the systematic genocides of Christians and all other peoples committed by islam as it spread from the desert onwards. You can not conquer that which is/was yours. Remember kids, everywhere there is islam it is because it killed what was there before, wherever it goes, all else dies. Convert or die, the devils doing. Look at any history time/place and you will find this is true and historical data is best data.

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

i recall a saying a Religion is a dangerous drug, anyone who follows it madly will even ignore their own safety and others leading them to their doom

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The younglings really decided to turn the tables

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[@lemmdus2119]

I think it was either a large group of young adults praying for Christian victory in the Holy Land and or a cautionary tale to not blindly follow someone.

[@ko7305]

Wow...what a lie/bs in the opening sentences...the crusades were not out to conquer to anything but they were the response to the systematic genocides of Christians and all other peoples committed by islam as it spread from the desert onwards. You can not conquer that which is/was yours. Remember kids, everywhere there is islam it is because it killed what was there before, wherever it goes, all else dies. Convert or die, the devils doing. Look at any history time/place and you will find this is true and historical data is best data.

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[@linkin0983]

That would definitely make sense.

[@coltonroark]

Once learned this in high school. Soon after I saw a sign outside a church and it said "children's crusade puppet show". Thought to myself how odd that is.

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[@ko7305]

Wow...what a lie/bs in the opening sentences...the crusades were not out to conquer to anything but they were the response to the systematic genocides of Christians and all other peoples committed by islam as it spread from the desert onwards. You can not conquer that which is/was yours. Remember kids, everywhere there is islam it is because it killed what was there before, wherever it goes, all else dies. Convert or die, the devils doing. Look at any history time/place and you will find this is true and historical data is best data.

[@FearlessP4P1]

What are the odds of that? Very creepy coincidence

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@@FearlessP4P1 They knew what they were doing. It's not like school curriculum is secret and no doubt the clergy's kids go to that school as well and told their parents.

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What kids sword fighting with sticks hope to achieve:

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I always keep a very cool looking stick cause it looks like a sword, but I get sad when I have to get rid of it

[@edocsil123]

me, the first time traveler, giving some random kid a cross and saying he has to retake the holy land

[@ko7305]

Wow...what a lie/bs in the opening sentences...the crusades were not out to conquer to anything but they were the response to the systematic genocides of Christians and all other peoples committed by islam as it spread from the desert onwards. You can not conquer that which is/was yours. Remember kids, everywhere there is islam it is because it killed what was there before, wherever it goes, all else dies. Convert or die, the devils doing. Look at any history time/place and you will find this is true and historical data is best data.

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History is full of charismatic individuals leading others on journeys to nowhere. Sometimes the leader truly believes, sometimes the idea of having followers just gets out of hand.

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This is usually how cults form

[@grtlyblesd]

Yes! Watching this, I was reminded of the Mormon “pilgrims” who followed Joseph Smith.

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@@grtlyblesd Mormanism is not Christianity

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@@spiffygonzales5899 I didn't say that it was. ?

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@@rompevuevitos222 And brain dead political movements.

[@Temtatork]

Children: "Goes to the holy land" Pirates: Is free real state

[@tuongtang8974]

Funfact: The fairy tale Pied Piper probably take inspiration from this situation

[@genghiskhan5701]

12 Year old then: In the name of the Lord, I shall retake the Holy Land from the heathens 12 Year old now: *Cries when you take away their phone*

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he cant take the holy land without his wi-fi conection to god

[@supergamergrill7734]

Well twelve year olds then didn't live that long. So I don't know who to think got the better end of the deal

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@@supergamergrill7734 well living long is not always a good thing

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@@justarocketlauncherwithayo4206 Yeah. Most of the time living to 100 isn't that good but I rather live past my teen years

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I drive past à tree grow from a cutting or seed... I'm not certain which that was taken from the only tree left standing in that wood.

[@Thoralmir]

I think most of these people were simply bored out of their mind doing peasant work, and just wanted to do something, _anything_ that wasn't simply mindless toil.

[@TimeWizard727]

What this really shows is that these kids were desperate for hope and that children are a lot more powerful and intelligent than the general populace gives them credit for.

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"you can go but take your brother"

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Hey Simple History, how about you do an episode on the history of writing the death messages. Im not entirely sure what they’re called verbatim but they are most famously shown in Saving Private Ryan with a room full of women with type writers. I believe this to be an interesting topic right up your alley.

[@TheEvilpossum]

From what we know independently, charismatic "child" prophets wandering the countryside weren't even that unusual for Medieval Europe. The darker side is that many of them would really have been teens and young adults like Joan of Arc engaged in revolt against the church, the nobility or both. The tales told about the Children's Crusade were ultimately a means to minimize and discourage such activity.

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The question is how did they acquire food and water? You can only march a few days without sustenance and I can only imagine most kids call it quits after marching a few days and go back home.

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probably died on their return way home

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[@Afiliun]

2:55 Assuming Nicholas wasn’t crazy and was just lying; imagine the amount of stress that was going through his head when his movement began to gain more and more momentum, until he had actually reached the Mediterranean.

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Kid on the battle field charging to the enemy: “ha we got you!” Enemy: “well you don’t anymore” *decapitates the kid’s head off the body*

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This was a great video. You should do one about the confederados, defectors from the civil war when the union won, about 20,000 fled to Brazil.

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True story I was there with Chuck Norris we were kid's at the time...😁🤔

[@thibaudduhamel2581]

Funny you should talk of this crusade on the very day i’m preparing my suitcase for my holidays in my grandmother’s house in Cloyes, the home of Stephen (in french Etienne) of Cloyes. Cheers from France!

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Hold up, the song starting at 4:39 sounds familiar. Does anyone know its name?

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[@phoenixyo9987]

It seems rather strange that you have two shepherds boys in 1212 being the leaders of two separate children's crusades. I wonder if both are actually retellings of the same story but their country/boy of origin are switched for random reasons. Or that the tale got sort of mythized between the two different countries who created origin stories of them for their specific regions.

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I was so confused when I read the title when I actaully read it correctly

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Honestly the abuse of religion and what it has done to humanity through out history....

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7:16 - Name of this wonderful holy music?

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Whats the song playing whe the kid hands the letter to the king?

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When i was 12 crossing two roads to the next street 5-10 minutes away from home to do whatever was considered a pilgrimage at that time. This kid at 12 being away hundreds of km from home wanted to cross continents for the lulz

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Very good job fellows!! Congratulations. I had to do a presentation on this in 8th grade, and it was so dreary to discover the fates of these kids.

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Literally the definition of scraping the barrel.

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[@persimmon93]

I learned about this when I was in middle school in my world history class ~2003-4. I learned that they all were enslaved on their route to the Holy lands.

[@mikegrossberg8624]

By the way, it wasn't only "pirates" that took kids for slaves. "Good Christians" ALSO profited by selling them

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@@mikegrossberg8624 it was medieval times. If you were trusting anyone outside of your hamlet, what were you really doing?

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I don't know why, but after i saw the title. For some unexplained reason I imagined a bunch of crazy teens and (psychopathic) kids going to participate in Operation Desert Storm (1991)

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So that's how the term ''INFANTry'' came to life, lol

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Me and the boys on our way to reclaim the holy land:

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Hey, you should make a video about this. There is a movie called “As Far As My Feet Carry Me” released in 2001. It’s about a German POW who tried to escape from gulags and make it back to Germany

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The Catholic church would never risk all those children on a crusade...

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This is a sentence I never thought I'd read.

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Slave owner: Hey, I know I'm your enemy and all but you need to be my everyday slave without putting a fight. Children crusaders: Understandable, have a nice day 👍🏽

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Make video about Athens Polytechnika during Junta or Greeks being successful during WWII

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So basically Medieval Kids Next Door

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Upon seeing this title, I said to myself that I never knew there was a Kidz Bop version of Sabaton’s The Last Stand

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If kids defended the Vatican from a horde of former mercenaries, it would be that

[@johnmalkowski9485]

Out of all the crusades, the *Children Crusade* was my favorite

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Kids fighting adult soldiers stand little chance.

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Ever heard of Child Soldiers în your life?

[@Wes-inator]

I have two ideas for more men of valor videos: 1. The British soldier in WW1 who inspired his fellow soldiers by playing the bagpipes 2: the American soldier in WW2 who called an airstrike on himself to take out the enemy

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I feel like the second story is the origin for "danger close"

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60 contemporary sources? That is more than enough evidence to know that this happened.

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Another awesome story from the pages of history. That being said, beginning an examination of historical events by boiling the crusades down to an attempted land grab by the Christians... bit of an L.

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it stopped me dead in my tracks and I'm still undecided if it's worth further watching well, gave it a try and apart from the suspiciously deconstructing manner of the whole thing, nothing really to complain about

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If they wanted just land they would've taken Egypt

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It’s like a WAR on Crusade

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Can you do a video on the People’s Crusade led by Peter the Hermit?

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Is it just me or when it got to the part about Stefan you could hear Metatron's theme intro song but a remixedish version lol. I know I've heard it somewhere other than that but I don't know the song's name.

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If I were born in the medieval era and got bored, with no gadgets or toys, I will do some crazy things like this

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Do about the Dominican Republic during the time of Rafael Trujillo and how he rose to power and how he rules as the chief or the boss and how the population was treated and how it all ended with his assassination in 1961

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