Recent content by ginutg

cool Ha! Did something similar myself but then lost interest in EU 4 n went back to CK 2.

His sons will definitely go after India..and other butterflies include the suppression of Rome's rise.

Carthage? Should have been there during his time and I strongly feel he would now look west into Europe after his campaigns in the East.

The Milites stayed back in Antioch. The men were battle weary. Alexius and Varkey both decided it was time to take rest and to reinforce. Tancred had left along with the main crusader army as they had moved south towards Jerusalem. The Milites decided to stay back and help Prince Bohemond...

Soon an epidemic of typhus broke out, and on 1 August Adhemar of le Puy died. In September the leaders of the crusade wrote to Pope Urban II, asking him to take personal control of Antioch, but he declined. For the rest of 1098, they took control of the countryside surrounding Antioch, although...

As Kerbogha fled, the citadel under command of Ahmed ibn Merwan finally surrendered, but only to Bohemond personally, rather than to Raymond; this seems to have been arranged beforehand without Raymond's knowledge. As expected, Bohemond claimed the city as his own, although Adhemar and Raymond...

On Monday, 28 June, the crusaders emerged from the city gate, with Raymond of Aguilers carrying the Holy Lance before them. Kerbogha hesitated against his generals' pleadings, hoping to attack them all at once rather than one division at a time, but he underestimated their size. He pretended to...

Holy Lance By the end of the day on 3 June, the crusaders controlled most of the city, except for the citadel, which remained in hands of Yaghi-Siyan's son Shams ad-Daulah. John the Oxite was reinstated as patriarch by Adhemar of Le Puy, the papal legate, who wished to keep good relations with...

Antioch Captured! Despite this, on 2 June, Stephen of Blois and some of the other crusaders deserted the army. Later on the same day, Firouz instructed Bohemond to feign a march south over the mountains to ostensibly confront Kerbogha, but then to double-back at night and scale the walls at the...

The siege continued, and at the end of May 1098 a Muslim army from Mosul under the command of Kerbogha approached Antioch. This army was much larger than the previous attempts to relieve the siege. Kerbogha had joined with Ridwan and Duqaq and his army also included troops from Persia and from...

Edessa [[Around 1094, the Seljuk emir of Damascus, Tutush I, captured Edessa and established Thoros as governor. Thoros immediately tried to take control of the city for himself; when Yaghi-Siyan, emir of Antioch, and Ridwan, emir of Aleppo, took refuge in Edessa after being defeated by Malik...

An English fleet led by Edgar Atheling, the exiled, self-proclaimed “King of England”, arrived at St Symeon on 4 March carrying supplies from the Byzantines. The fleet brought raw materials for constructing siege engines, but these were almost lost on the journey from the port to Antioch when...

1098, Antioch. As the new year, 1098 arrived, Varkey’s negotiations on behalf of Bohemond were unsuccessful. Raymond and Godfrey were the main opposers. Bohemond desired Antioch for himself and if he were aided in this regard, he was willing to help the other leaders obtain fiefdoms for...

While Count Raymond was repulsing a sally from Antioch's garrison, an army under the leadership of Duqaq of Damascas was en route to relieve Antioch. Bohemond and Robert of Flanders were unaware that their foraging party was heading towards Duqaq's men. On 30 December news reached Duqaq while...

The Crusader leaders saw the fortifications of Antioch and decided against direct assault. They then opted to besiege it and force the city into surrendering. Against the advice of Tatiakos, the Byzantine general who was with the Crusaders, the Crusade leaders camped very close to the city. One...