children's crusade, 1212

Presents the imagined blog of Hans, a twelve-year-old boy living in Germany in 1212, following his adventures after he runs away to join the Children's Crusade to Jerusalem and hopefully find his older brother Otto.

An account of the crusade during which thousands of children bound for Jerusalem died en route or were sold into slavery in Africa.

Describes the Crusade in 1212 in which hundreds of children traveling from France and Germany to the Holy Land met an unfortunate fate.

Etienne, acting on a vision of St. Nicholas, joins with two other young people, Abel and Blanche, to lead a crusade of children of different faiths to Jerusalem in 1212, at the height of the religious wars.

A young boy who volunteers to travel through time to the Middle Ages arrives during the Children's Crusade and is caught in its momentum.