After the Council of Clermont in 1096 , a movement of believers, adventurers, monks, nobles and commoners arose from the West towards the territories occupied by the infidels in the East. This later became known in the chronicles as the Crusades. The ultimate goal, at least in intentions, was to free the Holy Sepulcher and hand it over to Christian hands. And for a brief period of time, this work was successful. For this purpose, a series of monastic-knightly orders were created that combined the tenacity of faith with the strength of the sword.
The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Jerusalemites and also the Teutonics (further north) had a well-established hierarchy and divisions marked by unequivocal symbols that allowed them to be recognized even at the critical moment of battle. Even individual warriors, who did not belong to the hierarchies of military groups, had their cloaks marked with crosses of different sizes and designs, to show everyone their ultimate goal; for this reason, all of them could be identified with the generic name of 'crusaders'.