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Walter Sans Avoir, a leader of the First Crusade
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Walter Sans Avoir
Leader of the People's Crusade (d. 1096)
Walter Sans Avoir was the lord of Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Île-de-France. His name is often mistranslated as Walter the Penniless. While the words in his name do literally mean "Walter without having", the name actually derives from that of his demesne, Sans avoir Peur…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
First Crusade
1096–1099 Christian re-conquest of the Holy Land
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)