Scope Of Chapter 58
In The East from The Decline And Fall

The First Crusade

ADEvent
1095-1099First Crusade; Peter the Hermit
1095Urban II in the Council of Placentia
Council of Clermont–Justice of Crusades?
Spiritual Motives & Indulgences; Temporal & Carnal Motives; Influence of Example
1096Departure of the first Crusaders
Their Destruction
Chiefs of the first Crusade
Godfrey of Bouillon Hugh
of Vermandois
Raymond of Toulouse Bohemond
& Tancred
Chivalry
1096,
1097
March of the Princes to Constantinople
Policy of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus
He obtains the homage of the Crusaders
Insolence of the Franks
1097Their Review & Numbers; Siege of Nice
Battle of Dorylaeum
March through the Lesser Asia
1097-1151Baldwin founds the Principality of Edessa
1097,1098Siege of Antioch
1098Victory of the Crusaders; Famine & Distress at Antioch; Legend of the Holy Lance; Celestial Warriors
State of the Turks & Caliphs of Egypt
1098,1099Delay of the Franks
1099Their March to Jerusalem
Seige and Conquest of Jerusalem
1099,1100Election & Reign of Godfrey of Bouillon
1099 Battle of Ascalon
1099-1187Kingdom of Jerusalem
1099
-
1369
Assise of Jerusalem–Court of Peers
Law of Judicial Combats
Court of Burgesses–Syrians
Villains & Slaves