Crusades Timeline: 1100-1120

 

Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.


 

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1100 Jul 18 Death of Godfrey of Jerusalem; succeeded by Baldwin I  
  Aug 2   William Rufus of England killed
  Aug 5   Henry I crowned King of England
      Discovery of alcohol by distillation, probably at Salerno
      Adelard of Bath translates Euclid into Latin
1101 Mar 8 Prince Bohemond of Antioch captured  
  May Baldwin takes Arsuf and Caesarea  
  Jun 22   Death of Roger I of Sicily; succeeded by his son Simon
  Jun 23 Raymond of Toulouse takes Ankara  
  Jul 27 Death of King Conrad  
  Aug Raymond's army destroyed at Mersivan  
  Sep Crusader army destroyed at Heraclea  
  Sep 4 Baldwin defeats Egyptians at First Battle of Ramleh  
1102 May 17 Egyptians defeat Baldwin at Second Battle of Ramleh  
  May 28 Baldwin defeats Egyptians at Jaffa  
  Jul 26   Boleslav III becomes Duke of Poland
    Countess Matilda of Tuscany grants the "Patrimony of St. Peter" to the papacy  
1103 spring Bohemond is ransomed  
  Apr 27   Anselm of Canterbury exiled by King Henry I
  Jul 11   Death of Eric I the Good of Denmark
  Aug 24   Magnus III Bareleg of Norway killed in his invasion of Ireland
      Simon of Sicily dies; succeeded by his brother Roger II
1104 May Baldwin takes Acre; Battle of Harran  
  Dec 12   Emperor Henry V rebels against his father
      Consecration of the first Archbishop of Lund
1105 Feb 28 Death of Raymond of Toulouse  
  Aug 17 Baldwin defeats Egyptians in Third Battle of Ramleh  
  Dec   Emperor Henry IV captured by his son
      Niels becomes King of Denmark (d. 1134)
1106 Aug 7   Death of Emperor Henry IV
  Sep 28   Henry I of England defeats and captures Robert of Normandy
      Count Lothar of Supplinburg becomes Duke of Saxony
1107 Jan   Death of King Edgar of Scotland; succeeded by his brother Alexander I (-1136)
  Jul Kilij Arslan killed in battle near Mosul  
  Oct 9 Bohemond invades Byzantine Empire near Dyrrhachium  
1108 Jul 29   Death of Philip I of France; succeeded by his son Louis VI
  Sep Treaty of Devol - Bohemond becomes Emperor Alexius' vassal  
      William of Champeaux founds a theology school at the Abbey of St. Victor in Paris
1109 Mar   England and France go to war after Henry I rejects Louis' offer to settle their dispute in personal combat
  Apr   Death of Fulk IV of Anjou
  Apr 21   St. Anselm of Canterbury dies, age 73
  Jul 12 Tripoli surrenders to Baldwin  
      Emperor Henry V invades Poland but is defeated by Duke Boleslav III
1110 Dec 4 Sidon surrenders to Baldwin  
    Basil, leader of Bulgarian heretics (Bogomils) is ordered burnt by Emperor Alexius Comnenus  
      Theobald of Ιtampes, first teacher at Oxford
1111 Feb Death of Bohemond of Taranto  
  Feb 21   Death of Duke Roger of Apulia; succeeded by his son William
  Apr 13   Henry V crowned emperor
      Amadeus III made Count of Savoy by Henry V
1112 May   Count Henry of Portugal and Burgundy dies; succeeded by his son Alfonso Henriques (-1185)
  Sep   Henry V excommunicated in Synod of Vienne
      Raymond-Berengar III of Barcelona gains County of Provence
1113 Mar   Treaty of Gisors, by which Louis VI recognizes Henry I as overlord of Brittany and Maine
  Aug 24   Geoffrey Plantagent born
      St. Bernard enters the convent of Cξteaux
      Peter Abelard opens a school in Paris
1114 Jan 7   Henry V marries Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England
  Oct 1   Henry V defeated by Rhenish rebels at Andernach
      Death of King Coloman of Hungary; succeeded by his son Stephen II
      Earliest record of Champagne fairs
1115 Feb 11   Lothar of Saxony defeats Henry V at Welfesholz
  Jul 7 Death of Peter the Hermit  
  Nov   Mainz rebels against Henry V
  Dec 12   Death of Ivo of Chartres
      Raymond-Berengar conquers Belearic Islands
    Founding of house of Clairvaux by Bernard  
1116      
1117   Death of Malik Shah, Sultan of Rum  
1118 Jan 21   Pope Paschal II dies
  Jan 24   John of Gaeta elected as Pope Gelasius II
  Mar 8   Henry V has Maurice Boudin elected as Pope Gregory VIII
  Apr 2 Death of Baldwin I of Jerusalem  
  Aug 15 Death of Alexius Comnenus  
  Dec 19   Alfonso of Aragon captures Saragossa
      Inge II becomes King of Sweden
1119 Jan 29   Pope Gelasiius II dies; succeeded by Calixtus II
  Jun 28 Battle of the Field of Blood (Ager Sanguinis)  
  Aug 20   Henry I of England defeats Louis VI of France at Brιmule
  Dec 23   Calixtus confirms the Cistercian Rule (Carta Caritatis)
    The Order of the Templars founded  
1120 Nov 25   William, Henry's son, drowned with "The White Ship"
      Norbert of Xanten founds the Premonstratensian Order

• 1095-1099 • 1100-1120 • 1121-1144 • 1145-1163 • 1164-1187 • 1188-1197 • 1198-1214 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
 

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The timeline was created by  Skip Knox, who is an adjunct professor of history at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho USA since 1986. He received his MA in medieval history at the University of Utah in 1980 and his PhD in early modern European social and economic history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984.        http://crusades.boisestate.edu/

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