AMMAN - One of the first major campaigns of the First Crusade was the siege of Antioch in spring of 1098. The actual siege ...

March 9, 1098) was an Armenian ruler of Edessa at the time of the First Crusade. Thoros was a former officer (curopalates) in the Byzantine Empire and a lieutenant of Philaretos Brachamios. He was ...

AMMAN - Kerbogha mobilised a coalition of heterogenous Muslim emirs from Jazira in order to meet crusaders at Antioch. They ...

In 1147, the Second Crusade began, with the ambition of repeating the 'success' of the First Crusade, and in response to the loss of the County of Edessa in 1144. This year is the subject of our ...

Latin Catholic realms, created after the First Crusade. Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Edessa and Tripoli, and Principality of Antioch. crusades map stock illustrations Outremer, the Crusader states ...

The Second Crusade was a response to the call by Pope Eugenius III for Western Europeans to embark on an armed expedition to take back the city of Edessa. That city had been captured by the First ...

Their aim was to capture Jerusalem from the Turks. The Crusade was very successful and resulted in the formation of the Crusader States in the East. The fall of the Crusader State of Edessa led to the ...

Our Father among the Saints Theodore was born in Edessa of Mesopotamia. At the age of about nineteen, he became a monk at the Monastery of Mar Sabbas in Palestine. After he had spent some twenty-four ...

The Second Crusade had been called after the fall of Edessa to Zengi in 1144. In 1147, armies led by Conrad III of Germany and Louis VII of France began their separate journeys to the east. Conrad ...

Peter's Crusade was over. The First Crusade No kings took part in ... Baldwin took control of the area of Edessa and became the count of Edessa in 1098. When Godfrey died on 18th July 1100 the post of ...

"Leaders of the First Crusade experienced a similar challenge ... "From Kerbogha’s point of view, besieging Edessa could have been a way to strengthen the unity of the coalition by granting Edessa as ...