Crusaders (Antioch)

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Is a term referring to the Crusader-controlled regions in Antioch and its surroundigs before an organized polity was founded.

Establishment

September 1097: Tancred defeated the Seljuk garrison of Tarsus and started negotiations about their surrender.

September 1097: Tancred puts a garrison in Mamistra before leaving Cilicia through the Belen Pass and joins the main crusader army.

September 1097: As soon as Tancred reaches Mamistra, the Seljuk garrison fled the town and the local Armenians acknowledge Tancred as their ruler.

October 1097: An English fleet in Byzantine service seizes Latakia.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.First Crusade

Was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule.

February 1098: The Crusaders captured the ports of Latakia and Port Saint Symeon.

February 1098: The crusaders capture Harim.

July 1098: The crusader leaders send Hugh, Count of Vermandois and Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut to Constantinople to inform Alexios I about the conquest of Antioch. Bohemond takes control of most parts of the town, because most crusader leaders cede the districts that they had protected during the siege to him. Raymond IV retains his district and Peter Bartholomew declares him the protector of the Holy Lance.