For example, the 1963’s peaceful protest opposing segregation in the UK led by children was called “Birmingham Children’s Crusade”.
@babalaas- That is an interesting thought. I think that a story like this could have been conceivably been created to teach children to be brave. The so-called Children’s Crusade of 1212 CE, was a popular, double religious movement led by a French youth, Stephen of Cloyes, and a German boy, Nicholas of Cologne, who gathered two armies of perhaps 20,000 children, adolescents, and adults with the hopelessly optimistic objective of bettering the failures of the professional Crusader armies and capturing Jerusalem for Christendom. The crusades were essentially a religious war to regain control of the Holy lands. Part of the answer to this myth may be found above, under Myth #1. The Frenchman Voltaire (1694–1778) specifically used the “Children’s Crusade” to attack the Church by blaming the clergy for their ultimate demise: “This epidemic disease [i.e., the Crusading movement] spread even to children. It was rather a social movement conducted by young boys, the details of which remain unclear.
This would make him just 12 years old at the time of the Children’s Crusade. Once of the driving forces behind the Crusades was the issue of land and inheritance, because as the population of Europe grew, so did pressures on family lands. Some examples of these types of children’s rhymes and fairy tales that come to mind are ring around the rosy, little red riding hood, and the medieval crusades tale Old Man in the Mountain.I almost have to wonder if this story was a way for parents to teach their children about their religion during a tough time in history. However, the most bizarre episode in the Crusade-history is considered to be the “Children’s Crusade”, which is said to have been occurred in the year 1212.The recent findings about the event have indicated that there were actually 2 different groups of child crusaders, one came from France, and the other From Germany.The French group was led by Stephen of Cloyes, who was a peasant boy.
Up until quite recently, Muslims remembered the crusades as an instance in which they had beaten back a puny western Christian attack. Stephen claimed that Jesus came to his dream, and gave him a letter from heaven, which urged him to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims. Mary has a liberal arts degree from Goddard College and It was rather a social movement conducted by young boys, the details of which remain unclear. They just disappeared from history.The thought-provoking fact is that the two groups could not have possibly met or known each other. Their … There is some debate as to whether the boy was French or German, but in 1212, he motivated a large crowd which followed him to Italy, and then to the Middle East, where the young Crusaders were ultimately captured and sold into slavery. To the boy’s disappointment, the King was not even a little bit interested in his story, and he did not even bother to meet him. Although it wasn’t peaceful in the end, the children were successful to force business moguls to desegregate downtown Birmingham. These stories help to explain both the original crisis, and the lingering social trauma created by these crises.These issues can be hard for a child to understand, but a child is often graphically aware of these issues when these social traumas occur. It certainly sounds like a fascinating story, especially to modern readers interested in medieval history; unfortunately, all the evidence suggests that the Children's Crusade didn't actually happen.As often happens in history, the precise origin of the legends about the Children's Crusade isn't known, since the alleged event occurred so long ago. The myth was created due to a confusion in translation. It happened in 1212 AD. They were never to be found. He managed to assemble a number of young acolytes in the city of Vendôme, and then started marching towards Saint-Denies, located just outside the French capital Paris.His intention was to present the divine letter’s content to the king of France, Philip II. One of the most unusual events occurred in Medieval Europe was “The Children’s Crusade”. However, the two groups marched almost at the same time.