Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Despenser's Crusade (or the Bishop of Norwich's Crusade, sometimes just Norwich Crusade) of 1383 was a military expedition led by Henry le Despenser that aimed to assist the city of Ghent in its struggle against the supporters of Antipope Clement VII. It took place during the great Papal schism and the Hundred Years' War between England and France. While France supported Clement, whose court was based in Avignon, the English supported Pope Urban VI in Rome. Popular at the time among the lower and middle classes, Despenser's Crusade \"was only widely criticised in hindsight\", and \"for all its canonical propriety, [it] was the Hundred Years' War thinly disguised\". Among contemporary critics of the crusade were John Wyclif and the French chronicler Jean Froissart, who charged its leaders with hypocrisy."@en }
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- Despensers_Crusade abstract "Despenser's Crusade (or the Bishop of Norwich's Crusade, sometimes just Norwich Crusade) of 1383 was a military expedition led by Henry le Despenser that aimed to assist the city of Ghent in its struggle against the supporters of Antipope Clement VII. It took place during the great Papal schism and the Hundred Years' War between England and France. While France supported Clement, whose court was based in Avignon, the English supported Pope Urban VI in Rome. Popular at the time among the lower and middle classes, Despenser's Crusade \"was only widely criticised in hindsight\", and \"for all its canonical propriety, [it] was the Hundred Years' War thinly disguised\". Among contemporary critics of the crusade were John Wyclif and the French chronicler Jean Froissart, who charged its leaders with hypocrisy.".