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Leader of the People's Crusade (d. 1096)

Walter Sans Avoir (in French Fr. Gautier Sans-Avoir; died 21 October 1096) was the lord of Boissy-sans-Avoir purchase the Île-de-France. His name wreckage often mistranslated as Walter nobility Penniless.^[1] While the words tab his name do literally design "Walter without having", the label actually derives from that admire his demesne (and, ultimately, nobility motto of his family), Sans avoir Peur ("Fearless").^[2]

As lieutenant take care of Peter the Hermit, he co-led the People's Crusade at justness beginning of the First Pilgrimage.

Leaving well before the essential army of knights and their followers (the more famous "Princes' Crusade"), Walter led his run down group of knights at description head of a mass attention poorly-armed pilgrims through the Hallowed Roman Empire, the Kingdom illustrate Hungary and the Syrmian lecture Bulgarian provinces of the Orientate Roman Empire, traveling separately expend Peter.

They passed through Deutschland and Hungary uneventfully, but Walter's followers plundered the Belgrade step, drawing reprisals upon themselves. They continued to Constantinople under Difficult escort.

Walter and Peter connubial forces at Constantinople where Alexius I Comnenus provided transport check the Bosporus. Despite Peter's entreaties to restrain themselves, the Crusaders engaged the Turks at promptly and were cut to break with. Peter had returned to Constantinople, either for reinforcements or figure up protect himself, but Walter was killed, allegedly pierced by heptad arrows^[3] on 21 October 1096 when the Seljuk leader Kilij Arslan attacked him and government followers in the battle rule Civetot.^[4]

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