The Crusades were religious wars between Muslims and Christians that happened around Jerusalem and the Holy places of Palestine. For centuries, Jerusalem, which held a Holy significance to Christians, had been governed by Muslims, but they accepted Christian pilgrims because of the money they brought to the economy. Then, in the 1070s, Turks conquered the holy lands and treated Christians badly. Three thousand Christians were murdered and the Christians that were left were mistreated so much that
The Third Crusade, also known as The King’s Crusade, took place in the year from 1189 until 1192. The Third Crusade started because of the want to take back the Holy Land, Jerusalem. King Richard I was a very important and ambitious military commander during the Third Crusade, the Turks were reckless, yet valorous, and the Christian-Muslim relationship at the time was not positive. King Richard was viewed in a very positive way by his men. Some even viewed him as “the most brilliant crusader tactician”
However, with the beginning of the First Crusade, 1096 a wave of violence rose against the Jews at the hands of the Crusaders throughout France and Holy Roman Empire. There were massacres in Worms, Trier (both now in Germany), and Metz (now in France). One of the ways the murder of Jews was justified by the accusing of ritual murder, blood libel—of sacrificing Christian children at Passover to obtain blood for unleavened blood—which were entirely unjustified and unfounded. One famous example of