The Norwegian Crusade was an expedition to the Holy Land led by the young King Sigurd I of Norway, who became the first European king to travel there. He set out with a large fleet, wintered in England and in Iberia, fought Muslim forces in Portugal and the Balearic Islands, and reached the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in about 1110. In Jerusalem he met King Baldwin I, and the Norwegians took part in the siege and capture of the port of Sidon with him. Sigurd then travelled home through Constantinople, leaving his ships with the Byzantine emperor. He gained the nickname Jorsalfare, or Jerusalem-farer, and the journey is a notable episode in the history of northern Europe's contact with the Mediterranean.
Before and after
- 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
- 1110Construction of Maiden's Tower
- from 19 October 1110 to 5 December 1110Siege of Sidon
- 19 December 1111Death of Al-Ghazali
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