Reconquista

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Is it considered to be a crusade ?

 

[Murmurandus]

What do you mean? Is there a problem?

 

[Norgesvenn]

I suppose so. It pitched Christians vs Moslems (in the big picture, at least).

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by Attilio
Is it considered to be a crusade ?

Yes.

The Pope issued promises of absolutions to those who fought in the reconquista. That's a crusade in my book

 

[Txini]

It was not really a Crusade in its own, but a Group of many little Crusades

 

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This was kind of a cruzade! many forts were conquered with the help of the Cruzaders.

Without the cruzaders Portugal couldnot exist ( I'm don't know about the rest of Spain )

 

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Well the Pope gave the same sort of incentives there as in the Holy Land, right? And wasnt the Spanish church itself pretty active during? There were also a few crusading orders that garrisoned frontier castles against the Muslims as in Outremer.

Many non-Spanish Christians came to help as well, and during the 2nd & 3rd Crusades fleets from northern europe bound for the Holy Land stopped off and gave the Spanish & Portuguese a hand, didnt they? Looks like a crusade to me.

 

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Wasnt the reconquista a training ground of sort for French knights prior to the hundred years war?

Good way to get some experience, I guess.

 

[Txini]

Originally posted by Jaron
Wasnt the reconquista a training ground of sort for French knights prior to the hundred years war?

Good way to get some experience, I guess.

No, it wasn't Reconquista, that was the Trastamara's Wars

 

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definately a crusade and was viewed as such at the time. you also had the crusades in the baltics against the pagans there and the ever popular crusade against heretics, a especially repugnant bunch as they have fallen away from the true teachings and as such had to be punished in the most cruelsome matter