Can you name the modern countries from which people went on crusade in the Middle Ages?

Crusader	Country	Crusade
Raymond of St. Gilles, John of Brienne
Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin of Mons		Both on the First Crusade
Boidekin van Larne, Bishop Otto van Lippe		Both on the Fifth Crusade
Frederick of Vianden, Count Henry V the Blond		Fifth and Eighth Crusades
Oliver of Cologne, Emperor Frederick II		Fifth and Sixth Crusades
Bohemond of Taranto, Francis of Assisi		First and Fifth Crusades
Alfonso VIII of Castile, James I of Aragon		Reconquista in the 13th century
Afonso the Conqueror
Hubert Walter, Richard of Cornwall		Third and Sixth Crusades
Henry of Sandomierz, King Wladyslaw III		Second and Varna Crusades
King Sigurd I Magnusson		After the First Crusade
Sweyn Korsfarer		First Crusade
Duke Leopold V		Third Crusade
King Andrew II		Fifth Crusade
Mircea the Elder		Crusade of Nicopolis
Bishop Ortlieb of Basel, Otto of Grandison		Second and Ninth Crusades
Henry II of Lusignan, Peter I of Lusignan
Manuel I Comnenos, Bohemond V, Smbad the Constable
Balian of Ibelin, John of Jaffa		Third Crusade, Seventh Crusade
Balian of Sidon, John of Beirut		Both on the Fifth Crusade
	Both on the Fifth Crusade
	Both on the Fifth Crusade
	Both on the Fifth Crusade
	Both on the Fifth Crusade

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Countries on Crusade Quiz

by AdamBishop

Created Oct 18, 2010 in History
Featured May 7, 2011
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	Rube_Goldberg:	May 7th, 2011 at 16:54 GMT	18 points
	Interesting quiz, but I think there's too much time. When I got stuck I just started naming countries in Europe and finished with 3 minutes left.

	msbond:	May 7th, 2011 at 18:21 GMT	12 points
	I was so sure Sweden would be on here! Thanks for nothing, Ingmar Bergman :)

	lnmonster:	May 7th, 2011 at 18:42 GMT	5 points
	I just started naming European countries towards the end. Too much time. Somehow blanked on Denmark though...

	bpbindaas:	May 7th, 2011 at 18:52 GMT	1 point
	was stuck with Israel.. the name Jaffa struck me.. someone had commented in the "apples and oranges" quiz that israel was famous for oranges.. that helped.. yipee

	mrt23498:	May 7th, 2011 at 19:09 GMT	-4 points
	nice idea but not worked well

	RetroGirl:	May 7th, 2011 at 21:58 GMT	5 points
	I was thrilled to get them all, but it might be better if answers had to be named in order. That way you could avoid what it looks like I and several others did toward the end- naming (mostly) European countries :)

	AdamBishop:	May 7th, 2011 at 22:23 GMT	4 points
	Yeah that might make more sense for a published quiz...I did have it set to forced order for awhile, but it seemed to be played far less often that way, before it was published. Too bad it wasn't an editor pick first, then I could have had more feedback about forced order, and the time.

	Beatlezfann:	May 8th, 2011 at 02:07 GMT	8 points
	Im sure the 12 troops luxembourg sent really made the difference in the capturing of the holy land

	cuendillar:	May 8th, 2011 at 09:57 GMT	9 points
	Sweden did organize crusades, but not to the Holy Land. They were instead aimed at the pagans inwhat is now Finland, Russia and the Baltic countries. The Northern Crusades are, however, much less well known.

	AdamBishop:	May 8th, 2011 at 13:24 GMT	3 points
	That's right, I wasn't thinking of those. In that case, there would also be crusaders from the Baltic countries and maybe Russia.

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	Bataar:	May 8th, 2011 at 21:51 GMT	10 points
	@deadtotheworld: It says, "which modern country", not which country at the time of the Crusades. I think it would make for a more interesting quiz though if it used only the old country names. It would make guessing by European countries a lot harder.

	asdffdsaasdffdsa:	May 9th, 2011 at 05:03 GMT	6 points
	I could have sworn there were crusaders from Kyrgyzstan.

	AdamBishop:	May 9th, 2011 at 08:38 GMT	6 points
	deadtotheworld and Bataar, I did consider doing that (here or in a new quiz), but where would you draw the line? If you take "France" or "Holy Roman Empire" to be proper countries, then there wouldn't be many other answers; but if they are considered collections of independent states, then there would be hundreds of possible answers. But if people think guessing medieval states would be fun (I certainly would!), I could make one of those too.

	icing:	May 9th, 2011 at 17:44 GMT	1 point
	Very interesting and informative quiz, well done AdamBishop!

	t_switch101:	May 9th, 2011 at 23:15 GMT	3 points
	Shouldn't the Vatican be on here, at least as a bonus answer? I don't have a source, but surely at least one priest was sent to the Holy Land at that time, since the Pope instigated the conflict.

	AdamBishop:	May 10th, 2011 at 12:34 GMT	1 point
	I mentioned this in the archived comments - the Vatican has been a state only since 1929, and it is a very tiny part of Rome. In the Middle Ages the Popes usually lived in the Lateran Palace, or other places in the Papal States in Italy (they often had to move around during disputes with the Holy Roman Emperor or with antipopes), or in Avignon in France.

	JulienQuizMaster:	May 10th, 2011 at 23:55 GMT	1 point
	Good Quiz, have a question, when you say quote "First and Fifth Crusades; most crusaders were French" are you suggesting that France only fought in the 1st and the 5th crusade? If I ask that it's because I recall from a history class that Louis IX of France "Saint Louis" died during the eigth crusade after fighting in the seventh...

	AdamBishop:	May 11th, 2011 at 01:26 GMT	1 point
	I meant to link particular crusades with the people I gave as examples (so, 1st for Raymond, 5th for John). I chose those two randomly, but I could have picked from hundreds of other French crusaders (Louis IX, as you say, also Louis VII and Philip II led the second and third crusades).

	ottoman:	May 11th, 2011 at 02:10 GMT	2 points
	I'd rather see a "mideval polities" version, although you'd need the caveat "the polity desired is the one the listed figures would have been loyal to".

	311rvmt:	May 12th, 2011 at 03:29 GMT	1 point
	Surprised to find Romania on the list. Nicopolis was an "official" (papal sanctioned) crusade, although one often forgotten.

	phantom4ptplay:	May 12th, 2011 at 04:17 GMT	1 point
	What about the Muslim Crusades?