Crusading Warfare

Exploring the Military History of the Crusades

William James Hamblin
Folkmars Crusade
May-June 1096
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1- {May} Folkmar preaches the crusade
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gathering perhaps 10,000 followers, Prague
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sources. and French. This is because Henry IV {1056-1105}, the German
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3- {late June} Destruction of Folkmars crusade

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