Motivation

            The reason the Holy Land was so holy was because it was Jerusalem.  Jerusalem was where the passion of Christ(Jesus Christ) took place.  Jerusalem was captured by the fearful and very strong Seljuk Turks who also conquered the Byzantine Empire.  Byzantium tried hard to get help from the west.  All of this had much to do with the motivation the first Crusade,  but none had as much to do with it as much as the appeal at the council of Clem in 1095 by Pope Urban the second.

            Some other motivation of the Crusades is the fact that because the Seljuk's were ruling it left the west crying for help.  Conflict motivated Pope Urban the second to flee Rome by the emperor Henry the fourth, to seek support to fight a holy war against the Muslims and the Christians(Crusades).  Feudalism had brought anarchy and the creation of policies which resulted in almost continuous war.  All this motivated the first Crusade to happen in 1095.