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The 42 pages that link to First Crusade, each with the reason it gives.

• Alexios I KomnenosRelated: Alexios’s appeal for western military aid helped trigger the expedition, whose arrival he then managed.

• IndulgenceRelated: Crusade preaching helped expand the use of indulgences tied to specific acts.

• Knights HospitallerRelated: Its capture of Jerusalem created the setting in which the hospital community developed.

• Anna KomneneRelated: Its passage through Byzantine territory is a major episode in Anna’s account.

• Sultanate of RumRelated: Crusader forces crossed Seljuk territory and helped force the court away from Nicaea.

• KnightRelated: Crusading connected knightly warfare with religious vows and campaigns abroad.

• Fulcher of ChartresRelated: Fulcher accompanied this expedition and chronicled its progress.

• Malik-Shah IRelated: It began soon after Malik-Shah’s death, amid political fragmentation among Seljuk powers.

• Komnenian dynastyRelated: Alexios I’s appeal for military aid helped set the Crusade in motion, then complicated Byzantine diplomacy.

• Philip I of FranceRelated: Philip’s brother Hugh took part, though the king himself did not join the expedition.

• Pope Paschal IIRelated: Paschal inherited the crusade launched by his predecessor and supported its continuation.

• Torquato TassoRelated: The campaign supplies the historical setting for Tasso’s epic narrative.

• Al-Hakim bi-Amr AllahRelated: Later accounts connected al-Hakim’s destruction order to the political and religious tensions preceding the crusades.

• William IX of AquitaineRelated: Its success preceded William IX’s own, less successful expedition eastward.

• Gerard SassoRelated: The conquest of Jerusalem created the setting in which Gerard’s hospital community developed.