The cross first appeared in the years before Pope Blessed Urban II called for the First Crusade (1096-1099) to set off to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. Called at times ...

According to Catholic News Agency, the cross predates the First Crusade (1096-1099), but became more common after the Kingdom of Jerusalem adoptedthe cross as its chief banner in the 1200s before ...

The Jerusalem Cross and "Deus Vult" motto are frequently used together by religious organizations descended from the crusader ...

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Far from the Mediterranean coast, it was off the trade routes and ringed by difficult-to-cross mountains ... in the First Crusade. Hosler called the bloody capture of Jerusalem in 1099 a glaring ...

The circles symbolize the five wounds of Christ and allude to the Jerusalem Cross, the emblem of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Credit: Design Roy Elbag/© Ilya Berkovich/Amit Re’em This ...

Historians writing during the age of the First Crusade placed the fighters at the walls of Jerusalem in June 1099. It took the fighters approximately five weeks to cross the moat after tedious ...