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True or False: Only Knights were allowed to go on Crusade
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False.
Crusading was not limited to knights. Church leaders preached crusades to all Christians and granted indulgences to laypeople as well as clergy and nobles. Many participants were peasants, townsmen, clergy, merchants (e.g., Venetian contingents in the Fourth Crusade) and even whole popular movements (the People’s Crusade of 1096). Knights were prominent but not the only people who went.
Crusading was not limited to knights. Church leaders preached crusades to all Christians and granted indulgences to laypeople as well as clergy and nobles. Many participants were peasants, townsmen, clergy, merchants (e.g., Venetian contingents in the Fourth Crusade) and even whole popular movements (the People’s Crusade of 1096). Knights were prominent but not the only people who went.
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