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Pope urban ii speech summary...
The Council of Clermont: Beginning of the Crusades
The agenda at Clermont centered on the issues of reform. Discipline canons providing penalties for violations of Church laws regarding simony, celibacy, and lay investiture were passed.
The main event of the council occurred on November 27, when Urban spoke to a large assembly in the open air. This speech inaugurated the Crusades movement and is one of the most significant papal utterances in the 2,000-year history of the Church.
Despite the significance of the event, there are no direct records of what Urban actually said; but there are five accounts of the speech all written after the event by authors (Fulcher of Chartres, Robert the Monk, Baldric of Dol, Guibert of Nogent, and William of Malmesbury) who were either present at the council or who compiled their version of the speech from those who were present.
These accounts illustrate three themes in Urban’s speech: the need for the liberation of the Holy City of Jerusalem;
