1097

This page relates to the year 1097 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

Egypt

the Egypt Fatimide account seven million inhabitants.
April: The vizier of the Cairo Al-Aldal Chahinchah (“the Best”) receives the envoys of Alexis I {{er}} Comnène which announces the arrival of the knights to him Francs with Constantinople and their offensive in Asia Mineure. He transmits to the emperor his wishes success. He congratulates it after the fall on Nicée (May 16th) and sends to the Francs a delegation to propose to them an alliance against the Saljûqides at the time of the seat of Antioche ( October). He proposes to them the division of the Syria. The Francs remain evasive.

First crusade

April 5th: The Easter Day, Godefroy de Bouillon, duke of Low-Lotharingie, its brother Baudouin of Boulogne and their principal vassal agree, after long hesitations, to lend the Serment of allegiance to the Byzantine Empereur Alexis Ier Comnène, solemnly promising to restore with the empire the recently lost grounds and to recognize the basileus as suzerain for their future conquests.
April 9th: The Norman chief Bohémond de Tarente arrives at Constantinople and accepts without difficulty in lending the oath of allegiance to his former enemy, the Byzantine emperor Alexis Ier Comnène.
April 21st: Raymond of Saint-Gilles, count de Toulouse, arrives at Constantinople.
April 22nd: The count Raymond of Saint-Gilles meets as of the shortly after his arrival the Byzantine emperor Alexis Ier Comnène, and refuses to lend the oath of allegiance that this one claims crusaders.
May 4th: Godefroy de Bouillon, Tancrède de Hauteville, Robert of Flanders and Hugues de Vermandois leave Nicomédie and move on Nicée (current İznik ), capital of the sultanate seldjoukide of Roum, primary goal military of the crusaders.
May 14th: Beginning of the Head office of Nicée by the crusaders at the time of the First crusade.
May 21st: The army of help led by Kılıç Arslan is overcome.
May: Arrival with Constantinople of the last quotas of the crusade of the lords.
June 19th: Catch of Nicée on the Turks Seldjoukides by the crusaders. The Turkish garrison returns the city to the Byzantines, depriving the crusaders of the exploitation of the victory.
June 26th: The avant-garde of the army of the crusaders leaves the town of Nicée to undertake the long roads towards Jerusalem.
July 1st: Battle of Dorylée and victory of crossed over the Turks seldjoukides of Kılıç Arslan; Godefroy de Bouillon becomes the chief of the crusaders. Alexis Ier Comnène recovers the Aegean coast and the emirate of Smyrna of which the leader (the brother-in-law of Kılıç Arslan east flees).
July 31st: The army of the crusaders reached Antioche de Pisidie ( Yalvach ).
July-November: the Byzantines take again the control of the Lydie and put an end to the emirate Smyrna.
August 15th: The crusaders arrive at Iconium ( Konya ), where they will remain one week to take again their forces.
September 14th: Tancrède de Hauteville, dissatisfied with the plan adopted to go to Antioche, leaves Héraclée, accompanied by one hundred knights and two hundred infantrymen, and crosses the Portes cilicians, separating from the principal army to carry out its own forwarding in Cilicie.
September 21st: Tancrède de Hauteville reached Tarsus ( Tarsus ), the main city on the coastal plain cilician.
October 5th: The principal army of the crusaders arrives at Coxon ( Göksun ), where the Armenian inhabitants show themselves as friendly as those of Comana. The crusaders remain three days there.
October 13rd: The crusaders reach Marash and stop there during three days. During this short stay, Bohémond de Tarente joined the principal army.
October 21st: Beginning of the first Seat of Antioche. The city is girded of a wall of twelve kilometers, with four hundred and fifty turns and a citadel which overhangs the town of four hundred meters. Formerly Roman metropolis of two hundred and thousand inhabitants, the city counts of them nothing any more but forty thousand in 1097. Several districts, formerly populated, one summers converted into fields and orchards.

Europe

October: Edgar, wire of Malcolm III détrône Donald III of Scotland and imprisons it. Beginning of the reign of Edgar, king of Scotland (fine in 1107).

Battles of Bairén and Consuegra in Spain.
Raimond Béranger III (1082 - 1131) becomes alone Count de Barcelone.
the English attack the Vexin (fine in 1098).
Large Jacquerie in Slovakia, followed by the final establishment of the Magyar domination.
Beginning of the reign of Vladimir II Monomaque (1053 - 1125) large prince of Souzdal.
Guerre enters the princes to Russia (end in 1098). Vassilko Rostislvitch, prince Terebovle (principality of Galitch) is plugged.

Art and culture

Construction with London of the room of the Palate of Westminster ( Westminster Hall ).
the pope Urbain II extends the exemption from which Cluny with all the monasteries profits on which the abbot of Cluny exerts a direct jurisdiction. The order can escape the seizure from the bishops and the laic lords, to help with the raising of the clergy by propagating the pontifical reform.
At the end of the 11th century, the abbot of Cluny more or less directly directs 1450 establishments including 850 in France. But the expansion is stopped.

Births in 1097

Etienne of Blois, king of England.

Death in 1097

July 1st: Geoffroy of Assembles-Scabioso, knight French, with the Bataille of Dorylée, at the time of the First crusade.
July 1st: Guillaume de Hauteville, brother of Tancrède, Norman knight, with the Battle of Dorylée, at the time of the First crusade.

nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

Odon de Conteville: half-brother of William the Conqueror.

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