How long would it take approx to travel from England to Jerusalem in the late 1100's?

How long would it take to travel to Jerusalen in the late 12th century? I know this is a vague question, but I'm not sure of the answer. Also, what would have been the most common form of travel and what problems could have risen? Eg. Weather or violence.


Thanks in advance!|||It took the Crusaders two years to reach the holy land. Most walked.|||Richard the Lionhearted was the only royal to partake in the Crusades. Which is funny, he ordered all Jews to not come to his coronation when he ascended the throne.





On his quest to the Holy Land he was kidnapped and held in a tower in Germany for ransom. He started out in summer of 1190, by 1192 he is close by, but never at Jerusalem. A year later he captures Jerusalem, but the city falls within a year back to the Muslims Satraps.





There is a lot going on. Richard I is basically French, but owes his title to England, he doesn't speak English, the king prefers Lombardy France. The army is 4,000 knights, 4,000 pikes and 100 ships. So ship is the only way to get to Jerusalem.





To read about the Middle-Ages it is remarkable how much travel was done, but it seems to me the usual was 3 years round trip from England to the Orient and back.|||Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots left on a crusade to the Holy Land on 24 June 1268 and on 9 May 1271 he finally landed at Acre. The crusade accomplished little, and Edward was on his way home in 1272 when he was informed that his father had died. Making a slow return, he reached England in 1274 and he was crowned king at Westminster on 19 August.





So it appears about 2 to 3 years would be the time taken.





Interestingly he has another connection with Isreal, or more accurately the Jews as he threw them out of England and forbade them ever to return.





Their usury business 鈥?a practice forbidden to Christians 鈥?had made many people indebted to them and caused general popular resentment.In 1275, Edward had issued the Statute of the Jewry, which outlawed usury and encouraged the Jews to take up other more productive and honest professions. In 1279, in a crack-down on coin-clippers, he arrested all the heads of Jewish households in England and had around 300 of them executed. Coin clipping was a particularly crude method of theft whereby the edges of coins (at the time made of precious metals) were clipped off, hoarded and eventually sold, thus debasing the currency. For this reason the edges of coins were milled with fine lines to thwart this crime.





In 1280, he ordered all Jews to attend special sermons, preached by Dominican friars, with the hope of persuading them to mend their ways and take up usefull employment, but these exhortations failed so Edward formally expelled all Jews from England with the Edict of Expulsion in 1290 which has never been repealed, although iIn 1655, Oliver Cromwell recognized a petition by Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel and granted Jews the right to once again reside in Britain and in 1753, the Jew Bill was passed by the British Parliament, which allowed Jews to be naturalised through an application to Parliament. However, neither of these laws meant that the 1290 Edict of Expulsion was rescinded, the reigning monarch has to sign a decree that overrules the edict.|||The pilgrimage to the Holy Land from Britain usually took a year, if of course you could do it at all; the roads were full of bandits, plus wild beats, plus sudden illness...





An Army moves slower, so if you were with the Crusaders, it would take you bout a year and 9 months.|||It depends on the plane you were using