The Crusades - Events Flashcards
Council of Clermont - Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade
1095 27th November
Council of Piacenza: envoys from Alexius Commenus ask Pope Urban II for military help
1095 March
Pope Urban tours France preaching the crusade
1095 December - July 1096
Departure of the People’s Crusade
1096 March
Armies of northern French, Toulousains, and Normans of southern Italy set out
1096 August-October
People’s Crusade is defeated in Asia Minor
1096 September
Crusader armies start to arrive at Constantinople
1096 November-May 1097
Capture of Nicaea in Asia Minor
1097 19th June
Battle of Dorylaeum, Asia Minor
1097 1st July
Start of the siege of Antioch
1097 20th October
Capture of the city of Antioch
1098 3rd June
Battle of Antioch
1098 28th June
Surrender of the citadel of Antioch
1098 29th June
Death of Adhemar of Le Puy
1098 1st August
March down to Jerusalem
1098 November-May 1099
Crusaders arrive at Jerusalem
1099 7th June
Capture of Jerusalem
1099 15th July
Godfrey of Bouillon is chosen to rule Jerusalem as Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre
1099 22nd July
Many First Crusaders return home to the West
1099 August-September
Death of Godfrey of Bouillon
1100 18th July
Coronation of King Baldwin I
1100 25th December
Papal bull Pie postulatio voluntatis recognises Hospital of St John in Jerusalem
1113
Death of King Baldwin I on campaign in Egypt
1118 2nd April
Consecration of King Baldwin II as ruler of Jerusalem
1118 14th April
Foundation of the Knights Templar
1119
Captivity of King Baldwin II
1122 April-August 1123
Arrival of Count Fulk V of Anjou to marry Melisende, heiress to Jerusalem
1129 May
Death of Prince Bohemond II of Antioch - rule taken over by Princess Alice
1130 February
Death of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Coronation of Fulk and Melisende
1131 21st August
Arrival of Raymond of Poitiers and his succession to the principality of Antioch
1136 April
Birth of Saladin
1137
Emperor John Comnenus of Byzantium threatens Antioch
1137-38
Death of John Comnenus
1143 March
Death of King Fulk
1143 10th November
Byzantine army forces Raymond of Antioch to travel to Constantinople and acknowledge Byzantine overlordship
1144-45
Fall of Edessa to Zengi of Aleppo and Mosul
1144 24th December
First issue of Quantum praedecessores, crusade appeal of Pope Eugenius III
1145 1st December
Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay to King Louis VII and the French nobility
1146 31st March
Death of Zengi, succeeded by Nur ad-Din
1146 14th September
Bernard tours Flanders and the Rhineland recruiting men for the crusade
1146 September-January 1147
King Conrad III of Germany takes the cross
1146 24th December
Fleet of Anglo-Norman, Flemish and Rhinelanders set out for the Holy Land via Lisbon
1147 May
Armies of Conrad III and Louis VII set out for the Levant
1147 June
Armies of the Second Crusade at Constantinople
1147 September-October
Defeat of the French army at Mount Cadmus in Asia Minor
1148 7th January
Louis VII at Antioch
1148 March-May
Council of Palmarea decides to attack Damascus
1148 24th June
Siege of Damascus fails
1148 23-28th July
Failed attempts to launch a new crusade in France
1150 March-May
Struggle between Baldwin III and Melisende for control over Jerusalem
1151-52
Capture of Ascalon
1153 22nd August
Nur ad-Din takes control of Damascus
1154 April
Manuel Comnenus in northern Syria
1158-59
Marriage of Baldwin III and Theodora, a niece of Manuel Comnenus
1158 September
Death of King Baldwin III
1163 10th February
Coronation of King Amalric
1163 18th February
Nur ad-Din takes control of Egypt
1169
Death of Nur ad-Din
1174 15th May
Death of Amalric; succession of Baldwin IV
1174 11th July
Saladin takes control of Damascus
1174 November
Construction of the castle of Jacob’s Ford; it is then taken by Saladin
1178-79 (taken in August 1179)
Marriage of Guy of Lusignan and Sibylla
1180 April
Death of Manuel Comnenus
1180 24th September
Saladin takes control of Aleppo
1183 12th June
Saladin invades - the Franks shadow him and the Muslims retreat
1183 September-October
Removal of Guy of Lusignan from the regency
1183 October
Mission of Patriarch Heraclius and the masters of the Templars and Hospitallers to the West
1184-85