18 June 1053

"Pope Leo IX taken prisoner by Umfred & Robert Guiscard, who are dictating surrender terms, after the battle of Civitella"

Adolphe Roger

1061

"Battle of Ceramo in Sicily; victory of Roger I of Sicily over 35,000 Saracens"

Prosper Lafaye

1094

"Henry of Burgundy invested as Count of Portugal in 1094, at the hands of Alfonso VI, King of Castile, whose bastard daughter he had married"

Claude Jacquand

1095: November

"Adhémar de Monteil, bishop of le Puy and legate of Pope Urban II, announces the nomination of Raymond IV de Saint-Gilles, count of Toulouse, as military leader of the Provencal army of the 1st Crusade, November, 1095"

Pierre-Antoine Labouchère

1096: August

"Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of the East, receives Peter the Hermit at Constantinople, August 1096"

Gillot Saint-Evre

1097: May 21

"Battle waged by Sultan Kilij-Arslan against the crusaders besieging Nicaea, 1097"

Calixte Serrur

"Adhémar, bishop of Le Puy, legate of Pope Urban II, leader of the First Crusade (d. 1098)"

Merry Joseph Blondel

"Robert II, called 'of Jerusalem', count of Flanders in 1093, Crusader in 1095 (d. 1111)"

Henri Decaisne

1098: February

Baldwin of Boulogne, younger brother of Godfrey of Bouillon, summoned by the Armenian prince Thoros, enters Edessa, where he is acclaimed by the Armenian clergy"

Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury

1098: June 23

Battle outside the walls of Antioch between the crusaders, commanded by Bohemnon, and the army of Kerbogha, general of the sultan of Persia (with the Bishop brandishing the 'Holy Lance')"

Frédéric Henri Schopin

1098: June 3

"Taking of Antioch by the Crusaders, led by Bohemond of Taranto"

Louis Gallait

1099: June 6

"Tancred of Hauteville, prince of Antioch, takes possession of Bethlehem"

Pierre-Henri Revoil

1099: June 7

"Arrival of the Crusader army outside Jerusalem"

Emile Signol

1099: June - July

"Tancred of Hauteville, fighting on the Mount of Olives during the siege of Jerusalem by the Crusader army"

Emile Signol

1099: July 14

"Procession of the Crusaders, led by Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon, around the city of Jerusalem, on the eve of their assault"

Victor Schnetz

1099: July 15

[Capture of Jerusalem: Crusaders thank God]

Emile Signol

1099: August

"Godfrey of Bouillon deposits in the church of the Holy Sepulcher the standard and sword of the Grand Vizier Afdal, taken at the Battle of Ascalon, August 1099."

François-Marius Granet