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The Crusader's Oath The first impulse to the Crusade came from an appeal of the Eastern Emperor, Michael VII (1071-1078) to Pope Gregory VII for aid against the Seljuks. Alexius I (1088-1118), a stronger ruler than his immediate predecessors in Constantinople, saw the splits happening between the Seljuk Chiefs as an opportunity to take the offensive. He appealed to Pope Urban II for assistance in raising a body of knights from the west to help him recover his lost Asiatic states. Urban called on all Christendom to take part in the work, promising a complete remission of sins to those who would take the arduous journey. Urban thus combined the old idea of pilgrimage to the holy land with the more recent idea of holy war against the infidel. The crusader was at once pilgrim and soldier, bound by a solemn vow to visit the Holy Land in...

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