In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, popes called for crusades against

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, popes called crusades not only to fight Muslim powers in the Holy Land but also against groups they regarded as threats to Catholic teaching or church authority. These campaigns included crusades against heretics and other opponents of the Church. So the best answer is “any groups they thought threatened Catholicism.”

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