The chronicler Wendover wrote of the large contingent of prostitutes and how one of its leaders claimed to have received a letter to the King of France from a pilgrim who was Jesus.
Pieter Raedt's landmark 1977 article questioned many of the accounts of this event. Aubrey of Trois-Fontaines, in mentioning the disaster that befell some of its members in an expedition possibly organized by the merchants William Porcus and Hugh Ferreus, recounted how Gregory IX built a church to honor those who died.  The chronicler Wendover wrote of the large contingent of prostitutes and how one of its leaders claimed to have received a letter to the King of France from a pilgrim who was Jesus. Some of it would end due to orders from Phillip II, while the remainder mostly petered out when seas at Genoa failed to part. After getting suckered into "free transport" at Marseilles, some participants were sold into the Egyptian slave market. Led by Stephen of Cloyes and Nicholas of Cologne and coming in the wake of the Fourth Crusade, for 10 points, name this expedition to the Holy Land led by some youths.
Pieter Raedt's landmark 1977 article questioned many of the accounts of this event.
The Children's Crusade