Urban II preaches at Clermont and calls the armed pilgrimage to the Holy Land; the crusading movement begins.
Tagged: Councils Catholic Christian
The Event
- Date
- 1095 (exact)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Clermont, France; today Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Catholic
- Key figures
- Urban II
- Key texts
- Urban's sermon (in several reported versions)
Primary Sources
- Fulcher of Chartres, Chronicle (report of Urban's sermon)
- Robert the Monk, Historia Iherosolimitana
Secondary Sources
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0023; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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