The Crusades prior to the Knights Templar.
|
Year |
Time |
Event |
|
1095 |
Nov |
Pope Urban II presided over the Council of Clermont and called the First Crusade into being |
|
1096 |
Spring |
Peasants' Crusade set out from Europe |
|
1096 |
Aug |
Emperor Alexius of Constantinople shipped the Peasants' Crusade over the Bosporus |
|
1096 |
Late Summer |
First Crusade leaders were departing Europe |
|
1096 |
Oct |
Peasants' Crusade annihilated in Anatolia by the Turks |
|
1097 |
Spring |
First Crusade contingents assembling in Constantinople |
|
1097 |
End of Apr |
First Crusade began the march in Anatolia to Nicaea |
|
1097 |
Late May |
Nicaea surrendered to Alexius |
|
1097 |
Late June |
First Crusaders marched overland from Nicaea toward Dorylaeum |
|
1097 |
Oct 21 |
Crusaders arrived before Antioch; long, bitter siege ensued |
|
1098 |
Early Feb |
Emperor Alexius' General Tacitius left the siege of Antioch |
|
1098 |
Mar 10 |
Citizens of Edessa gave Baldwin control of the city |
|
1098 |
Jun 1 |
Stephen of Blois & a large group of French left the siege of Antioch |
|
1098 |
Jun 3 |
Firuz opened Antioch to Bohemond and the First Crusaders |
|
1098 |
Jun 5-9 |
Kerbogha arrived before Antioch & besieged the besiegers |
|
1098 |
Jun 14 |
Peter Bartholomew found the Lance |
|
1098 |
Jun 28 |
Crusaders beat back Kerbogha's siege of Crusader Antioch |
|
1098 |
Nov 27-Dec 11 |
Crusaders captured M'arrat-an-Numan; army restless for Jerusalem |
|
1099 |
Jan 13 |
Raymond of Toulouse led the first contingent away from Antioch and toward Jerusalem |
|
1099 |
Feb 14 |
Raymond began the desultory siege of Arqah, near Tripoli |
|
1099 |
Late Mar |
Godfrey and Robert of Flanders joined the siege of Arqah |
|
1099 |
Mid-May |
Raymond finally gave up on Arqah; all present marched to Jerusalem |
|
1099 |
Jun 6 |
Citizens of Bethlehem invited Tancred to protect them |
|
1099 |
Jun 7 |
Godfrey et al. arrived before Jerusalem |
|
1099 |
Jun 13 |
Crusaders failed to take Jerusalem by storm |
|
1099 |
Jul 15 |
Godfrey breached the walls of Jerusalem near Herod's Gate and soon was elected the "Defender of the Holy Sepulchre" |
|
1099 |
Aug 12 |
Crusaders beat back the Fatimids at Ascalon |
|
1100-18 |
Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem |
|
|
1113 |
Hospitallers of Jerusalem recognized by the papacy as an independent group |
|
|
1118-31 |
Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem |
|
|
1118-9 |
Hugh of Payns created the Order of the Temple |
