Back then some Christians had gone on pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Even though back then Moslems had ruled Jerusalem, Christians were allowed to visit the city. Just as the numbers of pilgrimages had traveled to Jerusalem was at new peaks, and then the Seljuk Turks took over Jerusalem and prevented pilgrimages. The Pope Urban was assisting in launching the first crusade but he had made one of the best speeches in the middle Ages; he was trying to save the Holy Land from the Turks. The first motivational was the Justice as practitioners of faith in the speech, he thought of an idea of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Muslim presence in the Holy Land that began with the initial of Palestine in the 7th century. This was not interfering …show more content…
His successor permitted the Byzantine Empire to rebuild it. Pilgrimages were allowed to the Holy Lands before and after the Sepulcher were rebuilt, but for a time pilgrims were captured and some of the clergy were killed. Another motivation was Developments in secular Europe. They declining the power of the Byzantine Empire and combined it with developments in Western Europe earlier in the middle Ages. The Carolingian Empire in the late century had combined with the stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of the Vikings, Slavs, and Magyars had a large class of armed warriors and energies were misplaced fighting each other. The Church tried to stem this violence with the Peace and Truce of God movements, but trained warriors always sought an outlet for their skills, and territorial expansion were becoming less attractive for large segments of the nobility. One exception was the Spain and Portugal, which at times Iberian knights and some was from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic Moors, who had successfully overrunning most of the Iberian over the preceding two