The First Crusade from the Byzantine Perspective | Animated History of the Byzantine Empire
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- The Byzantine Empire actually played a pretty big role in all the Crusades, but especially the first one. Let's take a closer look.
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Sources:
Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: the Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. Crown Publishers, 2010.
Frankopan, Peter. “The View from the East. Byzantine Accounts of the First Crusade.” History Today, vol. 62, no. 9, History Today Ltd., Sept. 2012, pp. 38-45.
Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Lilie, Ralph-Johannes. Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204. Clarendon, 1993.
Stouraitis, Ioannis. (2011). Jihād and Crusade: Byzantine positions towards the notions of “holy war.” Byzantina Symmeikta, 21(1), 11-63.
Tanase, Raul C. "Byzantine Diplomatic Strategies During The Period of the First Four Crusades." Research and Science Today, no. 2, 2014, pp. 223-230.
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No
It is the prototype of the Ottoman Empire
You also studying history in uni my dude?
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the auto generated captions when he said seljuk turks
"Sell yogourts"
Haha! That’s funny!
Yep, confused the hell out of me since I played the video with low volume and relied on captions
Dear God they were a marketing ploy all along
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Alexios : Does something
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Well..... mostly. Kinda.
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Vasil II The Bulgar-Slayer: *CHAD*
His heirs and rulers after: *VIRGIN SIMPS*
The only thing bisantines could simp for was their sisters
Uhm the Komnenos family and Michael VIII were far from simps
I hope unbiased history will also make videos about the byzantine empire cant wait for the CHAD BASIL
Jeremy T i can not wait to see how dovah views justinian, basil II and alexios
I prefer justinian but Basil is the 2nd best
Byzantine Empire: Man, I sure hope these religious fanatics don't attack us.
Crusaders: Just wait till the 4th one.
It's a stunning plot twist
REEE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE ITS THE ROMAN EMPIRE
maximo beluatti they’re still the Eastern half of the Roman Empire that didn’t fall, plus Constantinople is also known as Nova Roma or simply New Rome.
@@RIKARDO1172 well the Byzantines had more greek culture than they had roman culture
The Byzantines kind of were religious fanatics tho. They went through a phase where they tried to destroy all the art in the empire b/c they believed it blasphemous, then just changed their minds afterward.
Byzantine Empire: **exists in 1071**
Seljuk Turks: _"Prepare For Trouble."_
Normans in Italy and Sicily: _"And Make It Double"_
Byzantine Empire: *(SWEATS PROFUSELY)*
You're gonna get all the top comments on this video!
Venice: I smell profit!
French and Muslims. Together in world destruction since the invention of death.
@@caioaugusto3138 But what if the French learn that "French" means cannibal in Arabic...
@@kevin8712 Wait, it doesnt right?
This was great. Thoroughly enjoyed.
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The Pope: We must proceed cautiously with proper planni-
Peter the Hermit: *HOLD MY SACRAMENTAL WINE.*
Peter the Hermit was the first Leroy Jenkins
The people's crusade, the original murder hobos
Byzantines in 1071, trying to find a way to revive Belisarius and sweet talk to Seljuk Turks on the border:
Seljuk Turks, on the verge of Constantinople 5 minutes later: You sly dogs, you had us monologuing.
Byzantines: why does everyone want to kill me. This is stupid.
REEEE THEY'RE THE ROMANS
@Scarface Kritikos They were literally Roman though. No one called them byzantines. They called themselves Romans, and were the direct continuation of Ceasars Rome. The term byzantium was coined by some german historian long after the Roman empire was conquered by the turks. He was a member of the Holy Roman Empire in germany. So he refused to believe that the Roman empire was really the roman empire. Pretty silly if you ask me.
Niclas Dahl Aabo nah man they were aztec
@Scarface Kritikos The Roman Empire was never Latin Catholic. Ever. At any point in history. When the Empire "split" it was seen as a governmental split simply. It was one Roman Empire with two emperors to govern it more easily. The Roman Empire has been split like this before. The only reason we still called them one Roman Empire, was because they reunited under one emperor, and none of those sections of the Empire ever fell, like the West did the last time.
Before the west fell, it wasn't a latin Empire, or a catholic one. It had become Christian, but the church would not split into orthodox and catholic before wayyy later in the middle ages. As I said, the empire was not just a latin one. Many were bilingual. Especially politicians, scholars and Emperors. They spoke both Greek and Latin as the empire had those as the TWO major languages. Latin being the lingua franca in the west, and the language of governance and the bureaucracy. And Greek being the lingua franca in the east, and the language of science and philosophy. The greek parts were a CORE part of the Empire. The capital was even moved there before the split. To constantinople. A predominantly Greek city.
When the west finally did fall there was no question that the remaining east was the Roman empire. The emperor spoke latin still, and latin was the language of governance. Emperor Justinian also almost reconquered the west, but eventually Rome would lose it as it weakened.
At this point people already call it the byzantine empire today. Which is silly. Everyone called it the Roman Empire back then, and it was still a bilingual empire. Eventually, over centuries, Latin fell out of favor and Greek also took over as the language of governance. Which makes a lot of sense as the people in the east mostly spoke Greek. This did not suddenly change which empire it was. Greek had always been a major language, latin simply slowly fell out of favor as no one spoke it anymore. Not even in the west. Only the catholic church. The people living in italy spoke off shoots of latin. So of course, it was still the Roman empire. No one called it Byzantium while it existed. Literally no one. When the church split and later on the HRE was established, mainly germans started calling it the Greek empire, because they wanted to claim that they were rome. But the term Byzantium wasn't used for it before a hundred years after the fall of Constantinople. If you actually read my comment, and knew anything about the history of Rome, you would know that it literally was the Roman Empire.
When in the world would it have stopped being Rome and instead byzantium anyways? When it split? No one alive at the time would agree, they would simply laugh and say there is only one Roman Empire. When the language of governance changed to greek? Laughable. It was a gradual process. And Greek had always been a major language in the empire even before the split. I find it funny people try to deny that it was Rome. There is a literal direct line of succession from Julius Cesar to Emperor Justinian in the east who reconquered Italy.
@Scarface Kritikos Your points were:
They're far more greek.
So? At first the rulers and government still spoke latin. It was a gradual change to greek. That doesn't change which empire it is. Greek was a very dominant language along with latin already way before the split. Silly point to try and make.
Their core lands were Greece and Anatolia
So? They had been core lands of the Roman Empire since it was conquered. Even before the split the capital of the Empire was literally there. In Constantinople.
They were orthodox Christians, not Roman or Latin Catholic.
No, they were not. Not at first at least. And the Roman Empire had never been Roman or Latin Catholic anyways. So silly thing to say. The church split into Catholic and Orthodox in the middle ages, centuries AFTER only the east was left.
It's the holy hand grenade of Antioch!
I forget to add the Killer Rabbit
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Historically accurate and funny AF
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It's historically accurate like how a 5 year old explains WW2 accurate.
When you have killed like 1,069 people burned a city or two destroyed like 100 ships pooped on the street more than it is good for you and one day the pope comes to you and says god will forgive you if you take the holy land
Sounds like a good deal to me
Can I poop on the streets on my way there and sack a city or two still pretty please Mr Pointe Hat?
Cris Teix I think that works
@@leogjolaj7394 Yes. Time to sack Constantinople on my 4th poop trip. And maybe create the 100th Rome
The crusades in a nutshell: *let's go on a crusade to recapture the holy land*
*its works jk it doesn't and they keep trying till it doesn't work even more*
@taniths 1st and only sgt iron on duty dude give it up crusader achieve their goal in reconquer and hold it for century that's preety much a success. even if it's retaken later on they have achieve their goal long enough to be considered success.
@taniths 1st and only sgt iron on duty *continue
Greetings from Greece. Great video on a very interesting and complicated topic. The Byzantine role during the crusades is to this day a matter of dispute amongst historians.Especially after Alexios reign the relations between the Empire and the Crusader states become even more complicated.
For sure! Alexios was pretty careful with the whole thing. If someone other than him had been in charge things might of turned out differently.
Some Turks: *Conquer Anatolia And Threaten Constantinople.*
Crusaders: "You have forfeited your life privileges."
@Kshitij Raj 1st crusade was basically crusaders sending a lot of DCMAs to the Turks.
Kshitij Raj 100 Years later but errors were made....
Byzantines: -remove the emperor that the crusaders installed-
Crusaders: *_COWABUNGA IT IS_*
Someone: Hey, remember the crusades?
The Byzantine Empire: ....**PAIN**
i feel like this video has been written by a teen
That’s because it was
Hmm
@@HistoryHouseProductions No wonder.
Antioch: exists
Crusaders: *It's free real estate*
Normal people: Oh look it’s the insert name here empire.
Historians: Proceeds to have a Great Schism over the name of said empire.
Great schism you say?
*IS IT CRUSADING TIME?*
F for the Byzantine Empire, and also Constantipole in the 4th crusade and 1453
F
F🙏
*Roman empire
1453 was an inside job Ottoman cannons cant melt the Theodosian walls
@@ism333mx F
Middle East, Byzantine Asia Minor: **exist**
Seljuk Turks: *"It's Free Real Estate"*
Bill Wurtz!
It's a bird? It's a plane? It's the seljuk Turks!
The Seljuk Turks? I think you mean EVERYONE
That's how the Romans got it so why not?
City: exists.
Crusaders: can we surround it?
The real mystery of the crusades is where is little Jimmy?
He joined the People's crusade and was massacred in Anatolia
@@HistoryHouseProductions Good
@@HistoryHouseProductions I'm so happy Jimmy died, the people's crusade did result in the Turks not taking the real crusaders as a threat, basically making it that the actual crusade wasn't swept into the sea and they won!
I learned and laughed! Great doing this collab with you!
Awesome job on yours too!
On to watch your video now. I know it won't disappoint. 😉😉😉
When people claim that the crusades were about protecting Christianity from Islam I just point to the eastern Romans and say “WHAT ABOUT MY BOIS!!! ARE THEY ISLAMIC?!
The Crusades were really just kinda wack in general.
Which crusades? because there were a lot of them.
Seems most people.only care about 1st, 3rd and 4th crusade.
the 4th crusade is not as simple as it seems. Its original intent was to attack egypg. Howeve, due to series of complex events, lead to attack on constantinople. Context matters.
Focke Wunderwaffe then there are the later crusades which are arguably even more crazy. I mean they launched one on southern FRANCE!
Focke Wunderwaffe Yeah. Always bring enough money to pay the Venetians.
Pretty sure John Cena stole the "you can't see me" move from thicc boy Basil
Get it....cuz he blinded the bulgars....haha...very funny
People's Crusade: Yeah! We are going to take back the Holy land! Take us across.
Alexios: Okay.. uhmm... don't say i didn't warn you..
"Alright, just going to raise some mercenaries and-"
"DEUS VULT" *Random cheering sounds*
One small note, the idea of going to a place and having your sins absolved wasn't a brand new idea with the crusades. Going on pilgrimage to a local shrine or saint burial was a common way for people to absolve themselves of sins for centuries. Pope Urban essentially was like "Hey, what if we all went to pilgrimage to Jerusalem together, but we were all armed, and we took Jerusalem by force?" In the long term, this mindset actually kinda hurt the Crusades, as after taking Jerusalem many warriors were like "Well, I've absolved myself, time to go home." and left, leaving the Kingdom of Jerusalem much weaker.
That’s a good point!
Homeless people burning down Byzantine cities really hit my *Niš*
The First Crusade is the biggest case of "Wait, that worked?"
"Death stack" what an EU4 player
Thanks for the heart!
"1071, the Byzantine Empi- Why do I hear boss music?"
*"ITS CALLED THE ROMAN EMPIRE, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"*
_im dying_
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I feel like you really like the Eastern Roman Empire
Maybe
THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, GET IT RIGHT!
Hamdaan Chalky no
Hamdaan Chalky also it can be called anything
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When you want to get rid of your sins,and maybe get some cash but end up forming Latin Empire in Constantinopole.
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The crusaders when they occupied Constantinople:"looks like they couldn't handle the neutron style"
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Amazing work! I just discovered your channel and watched all of your videos in a single week! As a Byzantine Orthodox Christian from Lebanon I find your research particularly accurate.
PS: If I may add to your summary, the Crusaders finally upheld, at least partially, their promise to give back land and made the Principality of Antioch a Byzantine vassal from 1159 to 1180. Relations later deteriorated with the 1182 massacre of Constantinople followed by the Crusader invasion of 1204, but Italians would later aid in 1453 against the Turks and welcome the fleeing Palaiologos dynasty to settle in Naples.
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
Thank you for the kind words! I didn’t know that the Byzantines were invited into Naples! I know some of them fled to Italy, but that’s interesting that Naples let the royal family in!
@@HistoryHouseProductions Indeed, not only did they let them in but they allowed them to build the first Orthodox Church of Italy there, in 1518! Here it is : orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul_of_the_Greeks_(Naples,_Italy)
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I was thinking maybe you should cover modern Greece from its independence towards the end of 1923. Basically the "Megali Idea" or Restoring the Byzantine Empire was all on their mind. I love your work and I think you could definitely pull off this part of history!
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Not the kind of POV video that you normally see, but I like it
Nice to see the history presented from different perspectives. Cool.
It’s an interesting way to shake things up I think.
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I have written a comment earlier that you have seen, so I might try again on your next video, but I really like history and I am new to your channel. I have had a lot of spare time with current events and also not being old enough to have a job. I was just looking for new channels because I have seen everything on channels I have been watching. I am really fascinated by the Ottoman Empire and I have only seen the one you made on the Ottoman Empire during The Great War. I have not found any others in my small searches, but I have found videos I completely missed from a few months back. Thank you!
Thank YOU for watching! I appreciate you!
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ErM akHsUalLy tHe bYzAntInE eMpiRe iS rOmAn tHeY CalLeD tHeMselVEs rOmAn... am i smart yet?
Yes
@Somali Kid there is no lie. Its just that so many pretentious people constantly repeat this. As if we didnt know the fact. All that differs between between byzantine empire and eastern roman empire is that byzantine empire was named by later historian in the 16th century
@Somali Kid no. When you mention the name byzantine empire at all you'll get that reaction
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finally a video
6:36 - Nice nod to Bohemond de Hauteville being disinherited by his father and having to fight his younger half-brother for even a portion of his inheritance.
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Just so you know, this was actually the successful crusade
Which is funny because it seems like it should’ve gone horribly wrong. XD
When the most successful one was still more of a clown fest, you know the others were awful
nice video
The perfect timeline is where Alexios regained Antioch
you forget to mention that the byzantine force assisting in the siege of Nicea was token at best, until the ships arrived the crusaders had (at least in their own opinions) been doing all the work, Nicea severely damaged the trust of the crusaders (tho lets be real here bohemund was in it to yoink a city no matter what)
Yeah, it definitely raised some questions but it was so close to Byzantine territory I think it would’ve been hard for the crusaders to keep it.
@@HistoryHouseProductions I agree, I suspect they wanted to loot it (which was what Alexios feared and is thought to be why he made those deals with the turks as you said) but regardless, Alexios gave some consolation gifts but he had not told them in advance and the crusaders definitely viewed it as a betrayal.
I reckon part of why Bohemund kept antioch was because of its religious significance and that he hated the byzantines anyway being norman and all and having participated in the invasion of the empire you mentioned at the start. But his opinions of the byzantines definitely wasnt helped by nicea
Good ol' Bohemund lol. Was he the one who at one time fought for the Byzantines in Italy? And then turned against them? Perhaps it's someone else
@@dikaioskyrios he really appears to have disliked the Byzantines and tried to invade them more than once I believe. Maybe he did when he was younger I only studied him in relation the crusade might be worth googling it.
I have seen alot of pov videos but this one hits diffrently
Haha! I think I know what you mean
Do you have or will you be making a video about the other crusades? I teach 7th grade World History. The kids love your videos. They help me in the classroom.
That’s great to hear! I don’t have any plans for covering the other crusades at the moment. Crash Course has a pretty good video that covers all the crusades though. Maybe try that?
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One of the great lessons of history is that the papacy was really enthusiastic about creating forgeries and conveniently rewriting letters in order to legitimized their decisions.
Another great lesson of history is never trust a Norman (especially if he's named Bohemond) when anything important is on the line. Bohemond was responsible for the messages to Alexios saying that the crusader army had been destroyed, and also for the loudest complaints about "greek treachery" that led to most of the crusaders abandoning their oaths (and the main guy who objected was the biggest name who had refused to swear in the first place, but also the only guy who cared about holding everyone else to their oaths). And I'll bet it won't surprise anyone that Bohemond was also the first guy to split off from the crusade and seize control of a city in his own name, setting the example for everyone else.
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