Baltic Crusades (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Baltic Crusades, the name given to a series of overlapping attempts to convert the pagans of North East Europe to Christianity at the point of the sword. From the 12th Century, Papal Bulls endorsed those who fought on the side of the Church, the best known now being the Teutonic Order which, thwarted in Jerusalem, founded
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1147
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)