The chronology of the Crusades after 1400 provides a detailed timeline of the Crusades and considers the Crusades of the 15th century. This continues the chronology of the later Crusades through 1400. In the Middle East, the threats to the Christian West were from the Mamluks, the Timurids and the Ottomans. The latter would also threaten Eastern Europe and would emerge as the primary Islamic dynasty opposing the West. The Byzantine Empire would no longer exist, but the Reconquista was working well and would be resolved by the end of the 15th century. [1] The works of Norman Housley, in particular, describe the Crusading movement in this timeframe, [2] the impact of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, [3] and the manifestation of Crusading propaganda. [4]
Numerous chronologies of the Crusades have been published and include the following.
At the start of the 15th century, the rulers of the relevant countries, orders and dynasties were as follows.
A number of events from the late 14th century are key to the later timelines, including the following.
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The 1420s decade ran from January 1, 1420, to December 31, 1429.
Year 1423 (MCDXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years, by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover of the region threatened local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West, and the Byzantine Empire itself. The earliest initiative for the First Crusade began in 1095 when Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos requested military support from the Council of Piacenza in the empire's conflict with the Seljuk-led Turks. This was followed later in the year by the Council of Clermont, during which Pope Urban II supported the Byzantine request for military assistance and also urged faithful Christians to undertake an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
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