Title: IN THE NAME OF GOD. THE YEARS 1096-1098 OF THE FIRST CRUSADE The purpose of this essay is an attempt to understand how God is understood during the First Crusade 1096-1098. How feelings such as fear, shame, betrayal are perceived and portrayed. An Emotional Historical approach. In addition, a qualitative text analysis is applied to see how the concepts are described in sources such as letters and a chronicle. My predominant result and how I understand my source material is that God is the greatest and the power that governs human destiny. As a result, he decides who wins the crusade. Fear is hidden or repressed by ascending into God plus the feeling of being fulfilled by Him. When doing something shameful you break the knight ideal. It occurs, and in some cases leads to an exclusion from the community of knights and nobles and exclusion from the church. Exclusion can be revoked by once more go on a crusade. Betrayal is attributed to the enemy but is used to the same degree by the Crusaders.