threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was unlike anything ever seen before. #EpicHistoryTV #Crusades ...
This established his military dominance in the Holy Land and triggered the Third Crusade. "God wills it ... threatened by the growing power of the Seljuk Turks—who had already captured ...