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    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...
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  • The siege of Antioch occurred in 1268 when the Mamluk Sultanate under Baibars finally succeeded in capturing the city of Antioch. Prior to the siege, the...
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    The siege of Shaizar took place from April 28 to May 21, 1138. The allied forces of the Byzantine Empire, Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa...
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  • Siege of Antioch may refer to: Siege of Antioch (253) by the Sassanid Persians Siege of Antioch (540) by the Sassanid Persians Siege of Antioch (968–969)...
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    Byzantines in fear of the crusaders breaking into the city. The siege was followed by the Battle of Dorylaeum and the Siege of Antioch, all taking place...
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    Bohemond I of Antioch (c. 1054 – 5 or 7 March 1111), also known as Bohemond of Taranto or Bohemond of Hauteville, was the prince of Taranto from 1089 to...
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    and the Crusaders believed their discovery of a Holy Lance brought them a favorable end to the Siege of Antioch. However, in many conflicts the army or government...
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    The siege of Antioch in 968–969 was a successful military offensive undertaken by leading commanders of the Byzantine Empire in order to reconquer the...
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  • captured the city of Antioch Battle of the Lake of Antioch, a 1098 battle during the Siege of Antioch during the First Crusade Siege of Antioch (disambiguation)...
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    the successful siege of Antioch in June 1098, the Crusaders remained in the area for the rest of the year. The papal legate Adhemar of Le Puy had died...
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    during the siege of Antioch. He defended Edessa against Kerbogha, the governor of Mosul, for three weeks, preventing him from reaching Antioch before the...
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    crusaders had begun the Siege of Antioch on 21 October 1097. They had defeated a relief force under the command of Duqaq of Damascus on 31 December 1097...
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    siege of Antioch took place when the Sassanids under Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Antioch in 253 after defeating the Romans in the Battle of Barbalissos...
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    Crusaders' Siege of Antioch conquered the city in June 1098 after a siege lasting eight months on their way to Jerusalem. At this time, the bulk of far eastern...
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    began the Siege of Antioch, capturing the city in June 1098. Jerusalem, then under the Fatimids, was reached in June 1099 and the Siege of Jerusalem resulted...
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    tempt a side-expedition after the siege of Antioch. Baldwin of Boulogne, the first count of Edessa, became king of Jerusalem, and subsequent counts were...
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    and Bohemond of Taranto, launched the siege of Antioch in October 1097. That December, Bohemond and Robert II of Flanders led 20,000 men to forage and...
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    The Principality of Antioch (Latin: Principatus Antiochenus; Norman: Princeté de Antioch) was one of the Crusader states created during the First Crusade...
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    Eighth Crusade (category Charles I of Anjou)
    principality and began the Siege of Antioch. The Antiochene knights and garrison were under the command of the constable of Antioch, Simon Mansel. The city...
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  • castle of Rocha Martina to the abbey of St. Victor of Marseilles. Isoard of Ganges, who distinguished himself at the siege of Antioch Isoard I, Count of Die...
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    strategic Amanus Pass, Tancred imprisoned Raymond of Saint-Gilles in 1101/02. He assisted in the siege of Antioch in 1098. One year later, during the assault...
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    point either before or at the beginning of the Siege of Antioch in October 1098, he was chosen as 'leader' of the army, a function that seems to not have...
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    Battle of Dorylaeum in 1097, but his first major role came in October 1097 at the siege of Antioch. The crusaders heard a rumour that Antioch had been...
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  • known as the Fair, was the prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli from 1251 until his death. He ruled while Antioch was caught between the warring Mongol...
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    the Battle of Dorylaeum and Siege of Antioch. Adhemar is said to have carried the Holy Lance in the Crusaders’ desperate breakout at Antioch on 28 June...
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    during the eight-month siege of Antioch. The oldest version now known was recast by Graindor de Douai, a contemporary of Louis VII of France. Graindor borrowed...
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  • invasion of southern Syria, forced the Fatimids to lift the siege and secured Byzantine control of Antioch and northern Syria. On 28 October 969, Antioch fell...
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  • Tafurs (category Christians of the First Crusade)
    are said to have committed acts of cannibalism during the siege of Antioch or the siege of Ma'arra. The Tafurs took their name from a horseless Norman...
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  • idea of taking the city by assault was a discouraging one. The army began the Siege of Antioch on 20 October 1097, called one of the "greatest sieges in...
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