The Crusaders reached Jerusalem in June 7 1099 faced with a seemingly impossible task, their spirits were raised when a priest by the name of Peter Desiderius claimed to have a divine vision in which the ghost of Adhemar Le Puy instructed them to fast for three days and then march in a barefoot procession around the city walls, after which the city would fall in nine days. Although they were already starving, they fasted, and on July 8 they made the procession, with the clergy blowing trumpets and singing psalms, being mocked by the defenders of Jerusalem all the while.
WI Fatimid governor Iftikhar-Al Daula had attempted a sortie when the Crusaders were processing around the walls of Jerusalem and crushed them?
How is this altering History? Would there be (sic) another Crusade or the Nobles would give it up? Any thoughts?