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The first Northern Crusade. The conquest and forced conversion of the pagan Wends.Part 1

The first Northern Crusade was aimed at the conquest and forced conversion of the pagan Wends who lived to the east of the Elbe River in what is now North-Eastern Germany. The Wendish people were a Slavic race who had inhabited the area since the 5th Century. Attempts had been made to convert the Wends to Christianity ever since Charlemagne's time but the Wends had successfully resisted the pressure. By the 10th Century onwards however as the Christian Saxons grew in power and a nascent German state (and Holy Roman Empire) developed from East Francia, the pressure both in terms of missionaries and military force increased massively till in 1147CE a Crusade was declared (later called the Wendish Crusade) to convert the Wends by force. However the Crusade wasn't as successful as it should have been as the resourceful Prince Nyklot leading the Wendish pagans outwitted them militarily to an extent. Only a single pagan temple was destroyed in the whole Crusade and the pagan Wends threw off their nominal conversion as soon as the Crusaders left Wendish territory. This is part 1 of a series of videos on the crusade and its aftermath. Part 1 deals with the background to the Crusade, Saxon pressure, The Magdeburg letter encouraging a seizure of Slav territory, missionary activity in Slavic lands prior to the Crusade and Slavic resistance to Christianity ✅ Subscribe to Flavius Claudius Julianus @FlaviusClaudiusJulianus361 🙏 Like to support the channel? Join the channel Patreon community   / flaviusclaudiusjulianus  . Or buy us a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fcjulianus One time donation https://ko-fi.com/flaviusclaudiusjuli... CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 03:34 The time. The Wendish Crusade in relation to the Middle Eastern Crusades 06:53 The place. The territory of the Wendish people 09:32 The Wendish people. Their character, their cities, their main temples 18:18 The Christian neighbours. The Saxons, Danes and Poles 22:56 The rise of Saxon power 33:22 Advance of the Church. Expansion of bishoprics and the building of churches 36:00 The Great Slav Uprisings 51:33 Bishops advocating military solutions 59:42 The ‘drive to the east’. The displacement of pagan Slavs by Germanic Christians 01:03:37 Summing up