The Wends under attack. The first Northern Crusade Part 2. Christian forces attack the pagan Wends
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- The First Northern Crusade - called the Wendish Crusade - in 1147 was triggered by the preparations for the Second Crusade to the Middle East after the fall of the Christian Crusader state of Edessa. German Saxon aristocrats asked the Church authorities for permission to attack the pagan Wends across the River Elbe instead as they had no wish to travel the long distance to the 'Holy Land'. The Pope gave full permission for the attack on the pagan Wends with St. Bernard of Clairvaux insisting the pagans be either converted or destroyed.
Henry the Lion and Albert the Bear were two of the main leaders of the Wendish Crusade and were opposed by the pagan Prince Nyklot, leader of the Wendish people who despite the odds managed to turn back the Crusaders. Ultimately however the Christian powers proved too strong and the Wends were forced to convert and were assimilated into German Christian culture during the decades after the Crusade.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
02:25 Eve of the Crusade -the fall of Edessa
07:06 The call for a new crusade
16:06 Kill the Jews!
25:58 St. Bernard exhorts the Germans to join the Crusade
32:11 The German Saxons ask for a crusade against the pagan Wends
45:56 The leaders of the Wendish Crusade
52:04 The plan of attack
55:06 Prince Nyklot and the pagan army launch a pre-emptive attack
58:19 The Crusader advance
01:07:47 Aftermath
01:18:00 Summing up
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My ancestors are Wends
They were very hospitable to guests and travellers but formidable fighters also according to contemporary accounts :)
I'm danish, and according to sagas, my ancestors (pre christianity) respected the wends.
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Appreciate your interest my friend! No the channel is very much active. I just need to get better and faster with the editing software that's all and create faster. That's what I'll be working on as a priority.
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This subject is fascinating. Ingmar Bergmann's The Virgin Spring deals with the clash between paganism and Christianity in 13th century Sweden.
Thx for flagging that up. I hadn't heard of this movie before!
I’ve been interested in the crusades since playing the pagans in ck3 and being an ex-christian wondering how they took over Europe, and this helps explain it.
Part 1 made me think of Israel and Palestine today essentially being a form of a new crusade.
Great video, love your content, but is it really accurate to say that the Northern crusades ended when the last of the Balts converted, seeing as Lithuania’s elite converted (albeit largely nominally) in the late 14th century, then continued to fight the Teutonic Order for decades, even after Christianization of the Lithuanian peasantry had begun?
Great question. The raison d'etre for the Teutonic Order was the elimination of paganism however the 14th century onwards is a bit of a grey area obviously as the TO morphed into something quite different from pure Crusading and conversion into a separate power fighting Poles, Russians and Lithuanians.
This channel is too good for learning such matters. Personally I see Jesus as a good man and good charchter tho. Much better than Mohammad in fact. I was reading on Rome history , came acroos Julian Iulianus part and was too curious about him so I discovered this channel. (I'm guy also interested in old Turkic beliefs)Society and nations are really interesting... Thx for your labour for uploading your work . If you're interested can you also work on Islamic expension on Persia ,Sassanids , and Central Asia. I'm not an expert yet according to my limitede readings it's much much more brutal and destructive. It'd be also good since there's a huge Islamist propaganda going around in Western SocialMedia. Neverthless it's also amazing we can read Celcius , Iulianus and others's percpective since Greco-Roman culture had a recording culture👏👏👏 Greetings from TR
Though it's a GOOD THING UR SELF AWARE, I think it's best you expand your "limited readings", especially when making statements like such.
Consider these facts.
By the year 1200:
A Christian could live safely within an Islamic territory but a Muslim within Christian Europe would be hunted down and executed a heretic.
Pagans like Hindus could live safely within Islamic nations but if a Muslim were to appear or be present at that time in Christian Europe they'd be deemed Satanist and mass murders(similar but worse than Catholic v. Protestant heretic mass murders) would take place.
Of course in Islamic territories pagans & Christians would be considered second citizens of a lower class, but they still would retain their right TO LIVE AND NOT BE MURDERED unlike in Christian Europe where even OTHER CHRISTIANS didn't even have the right live because they were of a different sect, LET ALONE a pagan or Muslim.
WITH THIS IN MIND it should be obvious that religious brutality & cruelty ratio of Christendom dwarfs historical Islam.
It's really a very well documented fact.
@@istanknowledgereason1561many Christian, Buddhist were also hunted down and enslaved. Their church or temple were either destroyed - converted and they would take a shit ( not exaggerating), break down Buddha statues. Zoroastrians and other non Abrahamic beliefs were opressed immensely.Christianity on the other hand can have a similar - worse record what come to realized it's not out of Jesus's personality and you can also interpret it in a better way. Doesn't matter how oppressive you behaved it wasn't out of Jesus's character yet oppressing having war and enslaving other religions especially Jews and Arab pagans was purposely done by Mohammad. Their children/ wifes were taken as concubines after the families butchered just before them. What it disturbs me it's too easy to access these contents for you, you can see everywhere Christan critics - both historically and theologically- jokes cartoons etc while it's opposite for Islam and thought it'd make a good content. Even the first Turkic state karakhanids has a impressive bloody story whichs mostly under Saltuk Buğra but pretty ignored at modern times. That's why I asked:) and let's remember Christianity let's you make paintings, musics are drink alcohol since it was also affected by Roman culture. Christianity wasn't spread by sword in Rome but Islam was since the beginning.
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Yes, in times of war or civil rebellion, Christians & pagans who were involved were enslaved.
Nations who were at war or enemies with an Islamic nation had their ships/coasts raided and Christians would be enslaved and sold.
When conquering new land or to promote conversion, they turned Buddhist temples & christian churches into mosques. Take the Haggia Sophia for example.
This doesn't negate THE RIGHT TO LIFE Christians and pagans who lived WITHIN an Islamic territory had.
Christian, Jewish, pagan, Hindu, as long as you were citizen of within that Islamic nation that accepted muslims as your superiors and weren't part of an opposing/warring nation or starting a rebellion, YOU WERE SAFE.
In 1500 Iran, a Muslim couldn't just enslave or slaughter their christian/pagan neighbors the next morning just because they woke up and felt like it. In 1500 France, a Christian would be woken up by his mother-in-law, the king, the queen, and the Pope and be asked WHY HASN'T he slaughtered or enslaved his muslim/pagan neighbors yet.
"Christianity wasn't spread by sword in Rome but Islam was since the beginning."
Uh.. relevance? Lol.
Who cares about the first few hundred years of it's "peaceful expansion" when it's been spread by the sword for over a THOUSAND years after.
Also, have you ever done research WHY Islamic empires got so large so quickly and managed so many people?
Because of COEXISTENCE.
Muslim empires, from the first (caliphate) to the last (Ottomans), allowed non-believers to exist, but made them second citizens and pay extra taxes.
If muslims had the same "ideological purity" mindset Christians had in europe, THEY WOULDN'T be able to hold that big of an empire. A Muslim minority couldn't just at the snap of their fingers change the religious beliefs of MILLIONS of people years after conquering that land. And they couldn't just mass execute or enslave millions of people of newly conquered lands for not converting.
The spread of conversion followed the spread of Islamic empires in the same strategically minimally provocative manner.
A class system, with Muslims on top, incentivized mass non-muslim populations to convert over a span of hundreds of years without extreme violence. Lower taxes, better property & legal rights, pushed the majority of MASS muslim conversions in history. Not "the sword".
So the formula for Islamic success:
1)The non-puritan coexistent mannerisms allowed for large stable Islamic empires without mass internal rebellion and immediate fragmentation.
2)The class system pushed millions of non-muslims within an Islamic empire to convert with each generation without mass violence.
The spread of Christianity thru non-roman Europe was so slow compared to the Islamic boom in the middles east because they wanted EVERYONE in each newly piece of acquired land to be Christians.
If Christians weren't so puritan, they could've reached Finland before Islamic Iran reached Punjab, India.
Now I'm not here to debate which religion has historically been behaving more in line with their religious text LET ALONE with "the personality of their prophet". I'm an atheist, I follow neither.
Plus that could get messy seeing that it could completely deconstruct what a "true christian" is and modern Christianity.😬
I have a simple question, this is pretty much a "mask off" question. This question reveals all bias and irrational thought and can 100% settle this discussion:
In 1500, would you rather be a Muslim in France, Paris or a Christian in Ottoman, Jerusalem?
Porphyry’s treatment of Jesus within the Hekate Oracle Fragment (in its surviving form) indicates even stringent critics of Christianity could see the underlying man could have had piety. Furthermore the presence of Jesus within the PGM indicates that a wider “pagan” culture was accepting of Jesus divorced from his growing orthodox conceptions. What is hard for most heavily influenced by monotheism to conceive of is that belief and preference in one deity over another wasn’t an issue within the broader Hellenistic world. If the civic aspect of religion was participated in and one wasn’t a threat to state security what one believed wasn’t an issue.
Thx for watching turgayHul. Great motivation for me if folks enjoy the videos. I do plan on videos on Islamic expansion although it might fit better on a new channel as this one is more focused on Christian expansion in Europe. I will be doing more on Celsus btw. Appreciate your interest in the subject!
Your map indicates a non- Wolin location for Jomsborg. Reading Helgi Hundingsbane? 'Quid enim Hinieldus cum Christo?'
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Bad video. Anti christian bias. You are lame sir and your take is not profound.
Thx for your comment. I try to tell it like it was. The Northern Crusades were very much an aggressive expansion of Christianity (and land grab) and were undertaken with the blessings of the various Popes at the time. The pagans of the relatively sparsely populated Baltic area were no threat to Christian Europe.
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Here is an accurate and objective history of the northern crusades. Instead of your antichristian hit peice. Sad.