The Crusade of 1101 was a set of expeditions sent to reinforce the Crusader states and the new Kingdom of Jerusalem after the First Crusade. Several armies of Lombards, French, Germans and Aquitanians set out through Anatolia, inspired by the success of the first expedition and by those who had turned back. They included Stephen of Blois, Raymond IV of Toulouse, William IX of Aquitaine and Welf IV of Bavaria. They were poorly coordinated and unfamiliar with the terrain, and the Seljuk Turks destroyed them one after another in the summer of 1101, at places such as Mersivan and Heraclea. The disaster showed that the First Crusade's victory had owed a great deal to Turkish disunity, and it limited later European movement through Anatolia.
Before and after
- 12th centuryConstruction of Basilica of Saint-Denis
- 12th centuryConstruction of Urnes Stave Church
- from 12th century to 16th centuryConstruction of Reading Abbey
- 12th centuryConstruction of Tournai Cathedral
- 1101Crusade of 1101
- from 1102 to 1109Siege of Tripoli
- 1106Construction of Gelati Monastery
- from 1107 to 1110Norwegian Crusade
- 1110Birth of Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
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