Bruchhausen County

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Was a county of the Holy Roman Empire.

Establishment

January 1200: Bruchhausen County is partitioned from Wildeshausen.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.Stedinger Crusade

Was a Papally-sanctioned war against the rebellious peasants of Stedingen, in the Archibishopric of Bremen.

January 1205: In 1204, the Stedinger north of the Hunte rebelled against the count of Oldenburg, burning to the ground two of his castles. Their revolt spread south of the Hunte, where the archbishop's ministerials were driven off.

January 1235: The archbishop of Bremen mobilized his church and the Papacy to have a crusade sanctioned against the rebels of Stedingen. In the first campaign, the small crusading army was defeated. In a follow-up campaign the next year, a much larger crusader army was victorious.