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	Peter the Hermit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter the Hermit (died 1131) was a priest of Amiens, and a leader of the First Crusade.
		Peter joined the only other section which had succeeded in reaching Constantinople--that of Walter the Penniless; and with the joint forces, which had made themselves a nuisance by pilfering, he crossed to the Asiatic shore in the beginning of August.
		The original authorities for the story of Peter the Hermit are, for the authentic Peter, Anna Comnena and the Gesta Francorum; for the legendary Peter, Albert of Aix.
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	Peter the Hermit - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter the Hermit was a priest of Amiens, in France.
		This version of Peter's career seems as old as the Chanson des chétifs, a poem which Raymond of Antioch caused to be composed in honour of the Hermit and his followers soon after 1130.
		The whole legend of Peter is an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the First Crusade--an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the "idolizations" of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon), soon developed into a regular saga.
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		This version of Peter's career seems as old as the Chanson des chétifs, apoem which Raymond of Antioch caused to be composed in honourof the Hermit and his followers soon after 1130.
		The whole legend of Peter is an excellentinstance of the legendary amplification of the First Crusade--an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the"idolizations" of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon), soon developed into a regular saga.
		The original authorities for the story of Peter the Hermit are, for the authentic Peter, Anna Comnena and the GestaFrancorum; for the legendary Peter, Albert of Aix.
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	PETER THE HERMIT - LoveToKnow Article on PETER THE HERMIT
		This version of Peters career seems as old as the Chanson des chtifs, a poem which Raymond of Antioch caused to be composed in honor of the Hermit and his followers soon after 1130.
		The whole legend of Peter is an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the first crusadean amplification which, beginning during the crusath itself, in the idolizations of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon), soon developed into a regula~ saga.
		This saga found its most piquant beginning in th Hermits vision at Jerusalem, and there it accordingly began alike in Albert, followed by William of Tyre and in the Chanso, des chtifs, followed by the later CII anson dAntioche.
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	Peter the Hermit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter the Hermit (died 1131) was a priest of (Click link for more info and facts about Amiens) Amiens, and a leader of the (A Crusade from 1096 to 1099; captured Jerusalem and created a theocracy there) First Crusade.
		Peter joined the only other section which had succeeded in reaching Constantinople--that of (Click link for more info and facts about Walter the Penniless) Walter the Penniless; and with the joint forces, which had made themselves a nuisance by pilfering, he crossed to the Asiatic shore in the beginning of August.
		This version of Peter's career seems as old as the Chanson des chétifs, a poem which (Click link for more info and facts about Raymond of Antioch) Raymond of Antioch caused to be composed in honour of the Hermit and his followers soon after 1130.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Peter the Hermit
		Peter obtained the patriarchal letters and sought Urban II, who, moved by his recital, came to preach the crusade at Clermont ("Histor.
		Because of the silence of contemporaries and the later contradictory accounts, even the fact of the pilgrimage of Peter is doubtful, while it is impossible to assign to him the role of promoter of the crusade.
		Peter assembled the remnants of his band and in May, 1097, joined the army of Godfrey of Bouillon near Nicomedia.
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		It was in Palestine itself that Peter the Hermit first conceived the grand idea of rousing the powers of Christendom to rescue the Christians of the East from the thraldom of the Mussulmans, and the sepulchre of Jesus from the rude hands of the infidel.
		Peter crossed the Bosphorus with Walter, but the excesses of his followers were such, that, despairing of accomplishing any good end by remaining at their head, he left them to themselves, and returned to Constantinople, on the pretext of making arrangements with the government of Alexius for a proper supply of provisions.
		Peter the Hermit was previously sent to the camp of Kerbogha to propose that the quarrel between the two religions should be decided by a chosen number of the bravest soldiers of each army.
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	The People's Crusade - Peter the Hermit
		Peter of Amiens, known as Peter the Hermit was a maverick preacher without a church and his indignance at the oppression of Christians in Palestine grew into fanaticism.
		Peter is described as an unkempt old man, wearing no shoes and living on fish and wine, he was the most effective preacher of the Crusade.
		Peter and his hordes of peasants weren't about to wait for their armored lords and knights to lead the way, they set out on foot with neither weapons nor provisions.
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	Peter the Hermit and the First Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter was seen as a visionary and was popular amongst the common people for his charisma and self less behaviour.
		Peter the Hermit refused to believe that his fellow Christians were plotting against him, but when they reached the city to see the arms of Walter's sixteen men hanging from the battlements, a dispute over a the price of a pair of shoes led to a riot.
		Peter the Hermit was an influential man, who managed to lead an un-disciplined, un-organised group of men, women and children as far as Constantinople and Asia Minor.
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	Peter the Hermit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this idolization Peter naturally became the of the crusade just as Godfrey became founder of the kingdom of Jerusalem and legislator of the assizes.
		The whole legend of Peter an excellent instance of the legendary amplification the First Crusade--an amplification which beginning during crusade itself in the "idolizations" of the camps (idola castrorum if one may pervert Bacon) soon developed into a regular saga.
		The original authorities for the story of the Hermit are for the authentic Peter Comnena and the Gesta Francorum ; for the legendary Peter Albert of The whole career of the Hermit has thoroughly and excellently discussed by H Hagenmeyer Peter der Heremite (Leipzig 1879).
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	Hermit in Lore: Peter the Hermit - Articles - House of Hermits - Hermitary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fame of Peter the Hermit, the European medieval monk associated with the first crusade (1095) comes logically from the remarkable fact of a hermit turned war leader.
		William calls Peter "a hermit both in deed and name," but though he decidedly shows Peter in a favorable light he offers no details about his life as a hermit or any explanation of why he renounced it.
		Comnena says that Peter the Hermit had tried, unsuccessfully, to cross to Jerusalem long before the notion of a crusade, and that he preached the crusade for personal justification.
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	Peter the Hermit and Collected Accounts
		To whom Peter replied: "You may be assured, holy father, that if the Roman church and the princes of the West should learn from a zealous and a reliable witness the calamities which you suffer, there is not the slightest doubt that they would hasten to remedy the evil, both by words and deeds.
		As Peter saw the drowning and destruction which was befalling his men, he commanded the Bavarians, the Alemanni, and the other Teutons, by their promise of obedience to come to the aid of their Frankish brethren.
		But Peter the Hermit had gone to Constantinople a short while before because he was unable to restrain that varied host, which was not willing to listen either to him or to his words.
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	Chapter Petella <i>to</i> Petulant of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Peter, the stupid son of Solomon butler of the count Winterseh.
		Peter (Lord), the pope of Rome.—Swift: Tale of a Tub (1704); and Dr. Arbuthnot’s History of John Bull (1713).
		Peter the Hermit, a gentleman of Amiens, who renounced the military life for the religious.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Peter the Hermit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter the Hermit, also called Peter of Amiens (c.
		Hermit (religion), one who retires from society to live in solitude.
		The word hermit is derived from the Greek eremites (“living in the desert”)....
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	Peter the Hermit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the great council at Clermont at which the decision was reached to attempt the liberation of Jerusalem, Peter journeyed through southern France, preaching a "Holy War" against the Saracens.
		He was clad in a hermit's robe and rode on the back of a mule, carrying an elevated crucifix in his hand.
		Peter appears to have preserved his own life and to have attached himself to a body of well armed crusaders who followed soon after.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Peter the Hermit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter the Hermit, also called Peter of Amiens (circa 1050-1115), apostle of the First Crusade, a native of Amiens, France.
		Hermit, one who retires from society to live in solitude.
		The word hermit is derived from the Greek erēmitēs (“living in the desert”).
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	The Age of Chivalry - Peter the Hermit 1050-1115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Peter the Hermit was born in about 1050 in the French town of Amiens.
		At the siege of Jerusalem Peter was one of several clerics who preached sermons on the Mount of Olives in order to embolden and hearten the spirits of the crusaders.
		Peter returned to Europe between 1100 and 1102 with the Count of Montaign, a baron of the territory of Liege and founded the Augustinian monastery of Neufmoutier, which was built as a result of the fulfilment of a vow made by Peter if they survived the voyage to Flanders.
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	The People Rise
		Peter took the pope at his word, that rich and poor alike should go.
		His poverty, his eloquence, even the fact that he was barefoot and filthy and ate only fish and wine, all combined to mark him as someone extraordinary, and the poor flocked to him.
		Other preachers were active, too, and a number of these converged on the city in April and May. Peter wanted to wait, to allow time for the Frankish nobility and others to gather as well, but some of his lieutenants grew impatient and left ahead of him.
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	Peter the Hermit
		Peter pursued a crusade against the Turks after he had gathered enough men.
		Some of Peter’s men began to fight with the locals because they couldn’t understand their language, thinking they were Turks.
		After a few days of rest, Peter, and what was left of his army made the journey to Constantinople, reaching it by July.
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	Peter the Hermit
		Peter the Hermit, a priest of Amiens, who may, as Anna Comnena says, have attempted to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before 1096, and have been prevented by the Turks from reaching his destination.
		It is uncertain whether he was present at Pope Urban II's great sermon at Clermont in 1095; but it is certain that he was one of the preachers of the crusade in France after that sermon, and his own experience may have helped to give fire to his eloquence.
		The whole legend of Peter is an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the first crusade -- an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the "idolizations" of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon), soon developed into a regular saga.
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	St. Peter Morrone, Pope, Hermit (RM)
		He became a hermit at age 20, but left his cell to study for the priesthood and was ordained in Rome.
		After five years, he retired with two companions to Monte Majella in quest of greater solitude but was persuaded to go back to Monte Morrone, where he lived for many years as the head of a group of hermits that he organized first into a community and later into a monastery with a strict rule.
		In art, Saint Peter Celestine is depicted as a pope with a dove at his ear and the devil trying to disturb him.
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	Famous Men of the Middle Ages - Peter the Hermit (By John H. Haaren (John Henry))
		Peter was present at a council of clergy and people held at Clermont in France when his Holiness, Pope Urban II, made a stirring speech.
		Peter the Hermit had left the Crusaders before the battle and returned to Constantinople.
		Peter the Hermit is said to have preached an eloquent sermon on the Mount of Olives.
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	AllRefer.com - Peter the Hermit (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Peter the Hermit, Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biographies
		In 1095 he was a very successful preacher of the First Crusade (see Crusades), and he led one of its bands.
		In 1096 he reached Constantinople with his undisciplined followers; when they arrived in Asia Minor, Peter went back to get help from the Byzantine emperor Alexius I. In 1098 at Antioch he tried to run away; however, he later undertook a mission to the Muslim ruler of Mosul.
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	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 19
		These two were Camaldolese hermits of Montacuto in the region of Perugia, Italy (Benedictines).
		Peter was a convert to Catholicism, who studied for the priesthood at Ghent and Rome.
		In 1629, he joined the Jesuits and was a chaplain to the royalist army during the English civil war.
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	PETER THE HERMIT - Online Information article about PETER THE HERMIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In spite of his warnings, the pauperes began hostilities against the Turks; and Peter returned to Constantinople, either in despair at their recklessness, or in the See also:
		The whole legend of Peter is an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the first crusade—an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the " idolizations " of the different camps (idola castrorum, if one may pervert See also:
		authentic Peter, Anna Comnena and the Gesta Francorum; for the legendary Peter, Albert of Aix.
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	Who Was Peter The Hermit Tarot Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the esoteric Tarot cards, the Hermit (an allusion to Peter) is portrayed with a lantern lighting the way.
		The Hermit, as he is termed in common parlance...
		Hermit Learning the Tarot by Peter Denvid Wright Denvid@TheWanderingHermit.com © 1999 by Peter...
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