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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA - Issue no. 1 / 2000  
         
  Article:   HISTORICAL PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE VTH CRUSADE.

Authors:  EUGEN GLÜCK. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The autor brings some important documentary contribution to the elucidation of the Vth Crusade, especially with regard to the participation of certain contingents of crusaders from Transilvania and Partium, which were made up by Hungarians, Saxon and Romanian christians. In the year 1213 pope Inocentius III launched an appeal for a new crusade. The Lateran Council (1215) set up as objectives of the Crusade a military blow to Muslim Egypt and respectively the strengthening of the crusader states existing by that time (the kingdoms of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Cilicia, the dukedom of Antiocheia and the county of Tripoli). The Hungarian King Andrew II was also summoned to the crusade. This convening activated the Christian feelings in the Hungarian kingdom. The bishop of Agria (who had jurisdiction over the north west of Transilvania as well), had an important contribution to the crusade, in its first half, sending both money and tropps. A contingent formed from Transilvanian Saxons took part in expedition. The expedition began in 1217; the troops were transported in Venetian vans (ships) to Palestina. After a series of failures, in 1218 the Hungarian King withdrew, but bishop Thomas of Agria remained.  
         
     
         
         
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