An Analysis of Children's Crusades: How, Causes and Outcomes

Between the Fourth and Fifth Crusades, a children's movement was formed by Christian youth from Germany and France to seize Jerusalem from Muslims. Historical sources from that time are not provided for a complete and comprehensive analysis of it, and even the largest and most complete encyclopedias and scientific works of history have dealt with it or references it or briefly. Many historians are skeptical of its occurrence, even if they are all children. Now the question is, is this war only for children? What were the causes of this move and the results? In fact, the purpose of this article is to analyze children's crusade and its causes and causes. This research is one of the historical researches that has been used by the method of explanation to collect the required information and an attempt has been made to obtain the necessary bases for an analytical explanation of the subject. According to the findings of the article, components such as corporate motivations, the situation in medieval Europe and the passion of the Crusades can be named as the main reasons for the Children's Crusade, which had consequences such as the fall of the Pope and the beginning of the Fifth Crusade. . This incident represents the explosion of the strata that want to get rid of the current situation. It was also proved that the people had no role in killing these people.