Christian History 1000 to 1099

1010

In 1010, the Bishop of Limoges of France had the cities’ Jews expelled or killed if they refused to convert to Christianity.

1095

Crusades (1095-1291)First Crusade 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41] (10 pp. 11-41)

1096

First Crusade - Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. (10)
First Crusade - Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96 thousands. [WW23] *9/9/96-9/26/96 (10 p. 23)
First Crusade - Nikaia, Xerigordon (then turkish), thousands respectively. [WW25-27] (10 pp. 25-30)
First Crusade - Until Jan 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered (number of slain unknown) [WW30] (10 p. 30)
First Crusade Thousands of Jews slaughtered 1096, maybe 12.000 total. Places Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons), Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech) [EJ] (11)

1098

After 6/3/98 Antiochia (then turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women & children) killed.[WW32-35] (10 pp. 32-35) Here the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. [EC60] (11 p. 30) Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36] (10 p. 36)

1099

Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40] (10 pp. 37-40) (In the words of one witness "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude") The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness, wrote "It was impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without horror; everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished." [TG79] (12 p. 79)

Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the following summer in all of palestine the air was polluted by the stench of decomposition". One million victims of the first crusade alone. [WW41] (10 p. 41)

Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. 200,000 heathens slaughtered "in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ". [WW45] (10 p. 45)

1099

Second Crusade 1147.- Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham, Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). [WW57] (10 p. 57)