The Crusade of 1101 is a minor crusade of three separate movements, organized in 1100 and 1101 in the successful aftermath of the First Crusade.
It is also called the Crusade of the Faint-Hearted due to the number of participants who had joined this crusade after having turned back from the First Crusade.The successful First Crusade had prompted a call for reinforcements from the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, and Pope Paschal II, successor to Pope Urban II (who died before learning of the outcome of the crusade that he had called), urges a new expedition.
He especially urges those who have taken the crusade vow but have never departed, and those who had turned back while on the march.
Some of these people are already scorned at home and face enormous pressure to return to the east; Adela of Blois, wife of Stephen, Count of Blois, who had fled from the Siege of Antioch in 1098, is so ashamed of her husband that she does not permit him to stay at home.
