Definition of First Crusade

1. Noun. A Crusade from 1096 to 1099; captured Jerusalem and created a theocracy there.

Generic synonyms: Crusade

Lexicographical Neighbors of First Crusade

Firestone
Firmiana
Firmiana simplex
First Amendment
First Baron Beveridge
First Baron Kelvin
First Baron Lytton
First Baron Macaulay
First Baron Marks of Broughton
First Baron Rutherford
First Baron Rutherford of Nelson
First Baron Tennyson
First Cause
First Crusade (current term)
First Duke of Marlborough
First Duke of Wellington
First Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
First Earl Wavell
First Earl of Beaconsfield
First Earl of Chatham
First Earl of Orford
First Epistle of John
First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthia
First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalon
First Epistle of Peter
First Epistle to Timothy
First Epistle to the Corinthians

Literary usage of First Crusade

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The soldiers and pilgrims of Lombardy, France, and Germany were excited by the example and success of the first crusade.8 Forty- eight years after the ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"Expeditions by lind: the first crusade. AD 1101; the second of Conrad in. and Louis VU. AD 1147; the third of Frederic IAD 1189 were finally delivered by ..."

3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"RESULTS OF THE First Crusade As if obeying the impetus it had received, the new state ... The First Crusade was very different from the seven others. ..."

4. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1906)
"The many peoples who took part in the First Crusade. II. ... On his return he entirely rewrote the particulars of his history relating to the First Crusade, ..."

5. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"At Constantinople the knights did homage to the THE First Crusade Emperor. (For as I have told you, traditions die hard, and a Roman Emperor, however poor ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"It stands back of the cathedral, in the Place Pierre d'Amiens. BIBLIOGRAPHY: The principal literature is that dealing with the first crusade (see under ..."

7. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward A[ugustus] Freeman (1882)
"CHAP. IV. Bearing of the crusade on our story. No king engaged in the first crusade. The crusades a Latin movement Name of ..."

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