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jezreelite t1_irg7dtg wrote

Reply to comment by nanoman92 in Did the first crusade impact significantly the war-making capacity of states like england, west and east francia? And did later crusades impose equal burdens, or was the distribution of this burden different for the 2nd and 3rd crusades? by Qazwereira

The fact that most of the First Crusade were French is why the Muslim chroniclers of the period referred to all Western Catholics they met as "Franj" or "Ifranji": the Franks.

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nanoman92 t1_irikyll wrote

That may be Byzantine influence, they had been refering to westerners as Franks since Charlemagne.

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Hermano_Hue t1_irl1evr wrote

I think its due to the umayyads invading the iberian peninsula, since then they have been naming the western armies as franks

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