WI First Crusade Fails

What if the First Crusade failed, let's say that the crusaders fail to take Antioch and are crushed by Kerbogha's army. Would this kill the crusading spirit outright or would more crusaders arrive and try again. What sort of effect would this have on the Kommenian Restoration and on Fatimid Egypt?
 
Where does it fail; Nicea, Dorylaeum, transit of Anatolia, Cicilia, Antioch, Jerusalem or even as late as Ascalon?
 
I think it could certainly lead to them not trying anything so bold. I'm sure attempts at expeditions to capture Muslim areas wouldn't cease, but the might be limited in scope. Expect the reconquista and the like to continue I think, but nothing so overly ambitious, at least for a couple generations and probably without such a mixed army if it does happen.
 
Where does it fail; Nicea, Dorylaeum, transit of Anatolia, Cicilia, Antioch, Jerusalem or even as late as Ascalon?

The most likely place for it to fail would be at Antioch since I feel at that point the Crusader Army was weakest and most vulnerable so any decisive defeat there would be most devastating for them.

I think it could certainly lead to them not trying anything so bold. I'm sure attempts at expeditions to capture Muslim areas wouldn't cease, but the might be limited in scope. Expect the reconquista and the like to continue I think, but nothing so overly ambitious, at least for a couple generations and probably without such a mixed army if it does happen.

Could this mean that we might see a surviving Muslim state in Iberia. If the reconquista is weaker and less aggressive without the crusading spirit to motivate it and generate foreign interest could something like the Emirate of Granada survive into the modern day?
 
The most likely place for it to fail would be at Antioch since I feel at that point the Crusader Army was weakest and most vulnerable so any decisive defeat there would be most devastating for them.



Could this mean that we might see a surviving Muslim state in Iberia. If the reconquista is weaker and less aggressive without the crusading spirit to motivate it and generate foreign interest could something like the Emirate of Granada survive into the modern day?

The Reconquista was already well underway by 1095. I don't think the Crusades had much to do with it one way or another.
 
The most likely place for it to fail would be at Antioch since I feel at that point the Crusader Army was weakest and most vulnerable so any decisive defeat there would be most devastating for them............................

The Alexios Komnenos will still conduct successful campaigns in Anatolia and Armenian Cicilia would be independent as would the County of Edessa. In addition the Western pilgrim fleet which coalesced in the eastern Med would probably still be able to access Latakieh.
 
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