3: First Crusade Flashcards
The First Crusade was proclaimed by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont on…
27th November 1095
The first crusade party movement was known as the…
Peasant’s Crusade
The Peasant’s Crusade began in…
Spring 1096
The crusade parties with military contingents began moving in…
August 1096
The crusaders laid siege to Nicea on the…
26th April 1097
Nicea surrendered to the crusaders in…
June 1097
The crusader Kingdom of Edessa was established on the…
10th March 1098
Edessa was overthrown and subsequently ruled by…
Baldwin of Bouillon
The military contingent of crusaders besieged Antioch in…
October 1097
Antioch fell to the crusaders, who massacred its inhabitants, in…
June 1098
The second crusader state, the Principality of Antioch, was formed in…
June 1098
The crusaders besieged Jerusalem on the…
7th June 1099
Jerusalem fell to the crusaders on the…
15th July 1099
An Egyptian counter-invasion force were defeated by the crusaders on the…
12 August 1099
Fulcher of Chartres wrote an account of the first crusade called…
Gesta Francorum Jerusalem Expugnatium