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Year 1097 ( MXCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. By place. First Crusade. Spring – The Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon attack the Byzantine imperial palace at Blachernae.
- AD 1097
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- AD 1097
1097 fue un año común comenzado en jueves del calendario juliano. Acontecimientos. La Primera Cruzada llegan a Bizancio, luego invade Anatolia y Siria; Cruzados capturan Jerusalén (finalizada en 1099). Se produce la toma de Antioquía de parte de los cruzados.
- Prologue
- Fortress Antioch
- The Siege
- The Fall
- The Crusaders Besieged
- Aftermath
The First Crusade was conceived by Pope Urban II (r. 1088-1099 CE) following an appeal from the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118 CE) who wanted to fight back against the expanding Muslim Seljuk Turks who had robbed the Byzantine Empire of a good portion of Asia Minor. The fact that Jerusalem, the holiest city in Christendom, had a...
Located on the Orontes River, 19 km (12 miles) from the coast, Antioch had a population of around 40,000 and was enclosed within high walls put in place by the Byzantines in the 10th century CE. The sprawling city was far too big and the terrain too difficult for it to be encircled by a besieging army. At the same time, the city's walls were so ext...
With only a small force at his disposal, Yaghi-Sivan preferred not to risk any raiding parties on the attackers, and two weeks passed without much action as the Crusaders organised their positions. The contingents led by the Norman Bohemund of Taranto, Godfrey of Bouillon, the Duke of Lower Lorraine, and Raymond IV (aka Raymond de Saint-Gilles), Co...
By the 19th of March the attackers had put their new materials to good use and built a fortress tower to better attack a fortified bridge which was still in enemy hands and another tower to cover the one major gate they had not yet managed to block. Both of these access points had allowed the defenders to come and go from the city at will, both to ...
Kerbogha arrived at Antioch on 7 June and camped in the same positions the Crusaders had occupied for so long. The besiegers were now the besieged. The Crusaders built a wall to isolate the upper citadel from the lower fortifications and launched unsuccessful sorties on the forces outside. With starvation once again the most serious threat, the Cru...
In December 1098 CE the Crusader army marched onwards to Jerusalem, capturing several Syrian port cities on their way. They arrived, finally, at their ultimate destination on 7 June 1099 CE. After a short siege, the city was captured on 15 July 1099 CE. Alexios, meanwhile, wanted Antioch back and he sent a force to attack the city or at the very le...
- Mark Cartwright
The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in succession. The first siege, by the crusaders against the city held by the Seljuk Empire, lasted from 20 October 1097 to 3 June 1098.
Battle. Aftermath. Notes. Sources. Battle of Dorylaeum (1097) Coordinates: 39.7767°N 30.5206°E. The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on 1 July 1097 between the crusader forces and the Seljuk Turks, near the city of Dorylaeum in Anatolia.
- 1 July 1097
- Dorylaeum(modern-day Eskişehir, Turkey)
- Crusader victory
Siege of Antioch, (20 October 1097–28 June 1098). This marked the arrival of the First Crusade in the Holy Land. Events set a pattern of betrayal, massacre, and heroism that was to mark future campaigns. By capturing Antioch, the crusaders secured lines of supply and reinforcement to the west.
