Pope Urban II — "Let none of your possessions detain you, no solicitude for your family affairs, …"

Let none of your possessions detain you, no solicitude for your family affairs, since this land which you inhabit, shut in on all sides by the seas and surrounded by the mountain peaks, is too narrow for your large population; nor does it abound in wealth; and it furnishes scarcely food enough for its cultivators. Hence it is that you murder one another, that you wage war, and that frequently you perish by mutual wounds.
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Arguing that overpopulation and lack of resources in Europe lead to internal conflict, and the Crusade offers an outlet. (Robert the Monk's account)

Date: 1095

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