In the summer of 1212, charismatic youth preachers Stephen of Cloyes in France and Nicholas of Cologne in Germany rallied tens of thousands of peasant children, believing the Mediterranean Sea would part to allow them to peacefully reclaim Jerusalem. When the waters failed to part at Marseille, unscrupulous merchants offered seven ships for transport; two ships sank off the coast of Sardinia with all hands lost, and the remaining five sailed to North Africa where the surviving children were sold into Muslim slave markets.
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The Children's Crusade of 1212: Thousands of Youths Sold into Mediterranean Slavery
Stephen of Cloyes & Nicholas of Cologne / 1200s
In the summer of 1212, charismatic youth preachers Stephen of Cloyes in France and Nicholas of Cologne in Germany rallied tens of thousands of peasant children, believing the Mediterranean Sea would part to allow them to peacefully reclaim Jerusalem. When the waters failed to part at Marseille, unscrupulous merchants offered seven ships for transport; two ships sank off the coast of Sardinia with all hands lost, and the remaining five sailed to North Africa where the surviving children were sold into Muslim slave markets.
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