First Crusade

First Crusade
Part of the Crusades
The captur o Jerusalem marked the First Crusade's success
Date 1096 - 1099 Location Near East (Anatolie, Levant, Palestine) Result Decisive Crusader victory Territorial changes Kinrick o Jerusalem an ither Crusader states creatit
Belligerents
Christendom: Kinrick o Fraunce Blois Coonty o Toulouse Boulogne Marquisate o Provence Flanders Normandy Le Puy-en-Velay Vermandois Holy Roman Empire Genoa Lawer Lorraine Kinrick o England Duchy o Apulia Taranto Byzantine Empire Armenian Principality o Cilicia	Muslim warld: Great Seljuq Empire Danishmends Fatimids Almoravids Abbasids
Commanders an leaders
Godfrey o Bouillon Raymond IV o Toulouse Stephen II o Blois Baldwin o Boulogne Eustace III o Boulogne Robert II o Flanders Adhemar o Le Puy Hugh I o Vermandois Robert II o Normandy Bohemond o Taranto Tancred o Taranto Alexios I Komnenos Tatikios Manuel Boutoumites Guglielmo Embriaco Constantine I	Kilij Arslan I Yaghi-Siyan Kerbogha Duqaq Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan Ghazi ibn Danishmend Iftikhar ad-Daula Al-Afdal Shahanshah
Strenth
Crusaders: ~ 35,000 men 30,000 infantry 5,000 cavalry Byzantines: ~ 2,000 men	Unkent
Casualties an losses
Heich	Heich

The First Crusade (1096–1099) stairtit as a widespread pilgrimage (Fraunce an Germany) an endit as a militar expedeetion bi Roman Catholic Europe tae regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests o the Levant (632–661), ultimately resultin in the recaptur o Jerusalem in 1099. It wis launched on 27 November 1095 bi Pape Urban II wi the primary goal o respondin tae an appeal frae Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requestit that wastren volunteers come tae his aid an help tae repel the invadin Seljuq Turks frae Anatolie. An addeetional goal soon acame the principal objective—the Christian reconquest o the sacred ceety o Jerusalem an the Holy Land an the freein o the Eastren Christians frae Muslim rule.