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Hace 1 día · The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule. While Jerusalem had been under Muslim rule for hundreds of years, by the 11th century the Seljuk takeover ...
Hace 6 días · Nikephoros supported the revolt of Nikephoros III Botaneiates against Michael VII, but his son, George Palaiologos, married Anna Doukaina and thus supported the Doukas family and later Alexios I Komnenos, Anna's brother-in-law, against Botaneiates.
Hace 4 días · The First Crusade (1095-1102) was a military campaign by western European forces to recapture the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control. Conceived by Pope Urban II following an appeal from the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, the Crusade was a success with Christian forces taking control of Jerusalem on 15 July ...
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Hace 2 días · Anna Komnene mentions in her Alexiad that in 1091 Emperor Alexios ordered Nikephoros Melissenos to raise an army against invading Pechenegs. Melissenos recruited, among others, Bulgarians and "the nomadic tribes called Vlachs in popular parlance".
Hace 3 días · The First Crusade, launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II in response to a plea for aid from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, marked the beginning of this epoch-defining conflict. Urban II's call to arms at the Council of Clermont rallied thousands of knights, soldiers, and commoners from Western Europe to undertake the arduous journey to the Holy Land.
Hace 1 día · In 1071, the Seljuks dealt a crushing blow to the Byzantines at the Battle of Manzikert, leading to the loss of much of Anatolia. This military defeat and the Seljuk disruption of Christian pilgrimages to Jerusalem set the stage for Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to appeal to the West for military assistance.
Hace 4 días · The last of the Latin emperors, Baldwin II, fled to Italy; and the Venetians were dispossessed of their lucrative commercial centre. In August 1261 Michael VIII was crowned as emperor in Constantinople; the boy heir to the throne of Nicaea, John IV Lascaris, was blinded and imprisoned.
