Urban II (c. 1042–1099)
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A 16th-century drawing showing Pope Urban II urging Christian knights to join the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095. The First Crusade succeeded in recapturing Jerusalem, resulting in a massacre of the Muslims.
Pope 1088–99. He launched the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in France in 1095.
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