sual cost of this was about 45 cows.(web page, http://student.maxwell.syr.edu/anderson/equip.htm)
             But this is all was going to change. Knights would be drawn away from their meager household duties towards the east in God¹s crusade of 1095-1099. The feudal society had become to rough and tumble for many, especially those associated with the church. These indebted vassals were fighting and rampaging though the countryside at will. These sentiments were much of the motivation for what came to be known as the peace and truce of God. The peace of God was a papal decree that protected certain individuals from violence at all times. These people were the clergymen, as well as all women. The truce of God put strict limits of when fighting could occur between anyone at all. Declared at the diocese of Cologne in 1083, this was the church¹s first step towards trying to bring some order to the chaos that was feudalism.
             Through the first crusade, the church was able to give fighting a war a religious aura. Those who fought and died went to heaven, and those who killed were merely doing the work of Christ. This concept was very appealing to the k
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