Armenians in the Crusading movement
| Crusading movement |
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| Origins |
| Just war theory • Penance • Christian pilgrimage • Gregorian Reform |
| Varieties |
| Crusades • Popular Crusades • Iberian Crusades • Northern Crusades• Crusades against Christians |
| Theory and Practice |
| Indulgence • Crusade bull • Preaching • Vow • Warfare • Military orders • Finance • Criticism |
| States |
| Crusader states • Cyprus • Frankish Greece • State of the Teutonic Order • Rhodes • Malta |
| Enemies and Contacts |
| Byzantines • Armenians • Jacobites • Jews |
Exposed to depredations by their Turkoman neighbours, the Armenians of the Middle East tended to cooperate with western European crusaders from the beginning of the crusading movement in the late eleventh century.