| The information required to answer this question was not recorded, and so it is impossible to know how many people went. For the earlier crusades, historians are able to identify individual crusaders from charters that they issued before going on crusade or from lists of names in chronicles (for instance) but these generally only tell us the names of the leading figures in the crusaders' forces. It is impossible to know how many soldiers they took with them let alone the numbers of non-combatants who accompanised the army. For crusades in the later middle ages and expeditions in the early modern period we have more information, but it is not possible to give total figures overall. |
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