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What religious leader from the catholic church helped to organize the first crusade?.

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council of piacenza

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The major ecclesiastical impetuses behind the First Crusade were the Council of Piacenza and subsequent Council of Clermont, both held in 1095 by Pope Urban II, and resulted in the mobilization of Western Europe to go to the Holy Land

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