1 Jan 1099 Jahr - 1st Crusade

Beschreibung:

establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Christianity becomes militant.

in 1130, St Bernard of Clairvaux will write in his "In Praise of the New Knighthood":

"The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes ... The Christian glories in the death of the pagan, because Christ is glorified"