Pilgrimage: Timeline

688   King Caedwalla of Wessex abdicates the throne and goes on a pilgrimage to Rome Rome

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1000   Emperor Emperor

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 Otto III makes pilgrimage from Rome Rome

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 to Aachen Aachen

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 and Gniezno Gniezno

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 (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg Regensburg

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, Meissen, Magdeburg Magdeburg

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, and Gniezno Gniezno

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. Congress of Gniezno (with Boleslaw I Chrobry) was part of pilgrimage. In Rome Rome

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, he builds the basilica of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, to host the relics of St. Bartholomew.

1058   Aldred Aldred

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 becomes the first English England

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 bishop Bishop

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 to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem Jerusalem

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1275   Nestorian monk Rabban Bar Sauma begin his pilgrimage from China China

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 towards Jerusalem Jerusalem

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