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Jerusalem 1099: The Crusader Bloodbath

8 min•9 maj 2026

In this episode, Lucas and Luna revisit one of the most notorious events in Jerusalem's long history: the Crusader sack of 1099. After a three-year march across Europe and a brutal siege, Christian knights breached the walls of the Holy City. What followed was a massacre that shocked even medieval chroniclers. Lucas walks through the siege—from the arrival of the First Crusade under Raymond of Saint-Gilles and Godfrey of Bouillon, to the final assault on July 15. He details the slaughter in the al-Aqsa Mosque, the looting of the Dome of the Rock, and the peculiar aftermath: the creation of a Latin Kingdom ruled by Godfrey, who refused to wear a crown of gold where Christ had worn a crown of thorns. Luna asks about the Jewish and Muslim accounts of the massacre, and Lucas shares the famous story of Tancred's banners and the broken promises. The episode also touches on the establishment of the Crusader states and the legacy of this violence in later Islamic historiography.

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