Therefore, I pray and exhort, nay not I, but the Lord prays and exhorts you, as heralds of Christ, to urge men of all ranks, knights and foot-soldiers, rich and poor, to hasten to exterminate this vile race from the lands of our brethren.
Launched the First Crusade
Speech at the Council of Clermont (as reported by Robert the Monk)
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