Church Reform and the Crusades

simony- Sold positions in the Church sold by Church Bishops
Gothic- Relating to a style of Church architecture that developed in medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults, stained glass windows, flying buttresses, pointed arches and tall spires
Urban II- The 1st pope to call for a holy war to gain control of the holy land
Crusade-  1 of the expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover control f the Holy Land from the Muslims
Saladin- A Kurdish captain that recovered Jerusalem in 1187 and made a truce to grant Western pilgrims to access the Holy Land
Richard the Lion-Hearted- An english king who attempted to regain the Holy Land from Kurdish captain, Saladin, however just ended up agreeing to a truce to allow Western Christian pilgrims to visit the Holy Land temporarily
Reconquista- The effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain from the late 11000s to 1492
Inquisition- A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy

 2. I believe that the reform was the most important because the church still follows the law of me during that time. Example: not being able to marry once a priest.

 3. Many village priest married and had families such marriages were against church ruling.
Bishop sold positions in the church a practice called simony
Using the practice of lay investiture kings appointed church bishops. Church reformers believed that church alone should a point there shops.

4. The first crusade

 5. Religious goals gave way to personal and economic gain.

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