The town of Malatya, which guards one …
Years: 1100 - 1100
August
The town of Malatya, which guards one of the Cilician Gates through the Taurus Mountains, has by 1100 been captured by an Armenian soldier of fortune.
Reports have been received that the Malik Ghazi Danishmend (Danishmend Emir), Ghazi Gümüştekin of Sivas, is preparing an expedition to capture Malatia, and the Armenians seek help from Bohemond.
Afraid to weaken his forces at Antioch, but not wishing to avoid the chance to extend his domain northwards, Bohemond marches north in August 1100 with only three hundred knights and a small force of foot soldiers.
Failing to send scouting parties, they are ambushed by the Turks, and completely encircled at the Battle of Melitene.
Bohemond manages to send one soldier to seek help from Baldwin of Edessa, but is captured and laden with chains and confined in prison in Neo-Caesarea (modern Niksar), where he is to languish until 1103.
Baldwin aids in relieving the siege.
The Armenian ruler of the city, Gabriel, now recognizes Baldwin as overlord of the city.
Locations
People
- Al-Afdal Shahanshah
- Alexios I Komnenos
- Baldwin I of Jerusalem
- Bohemond I of Antioch
- Constantine I
- Danishmend Gazi
- Edgar (the) Ætheling
- Eustace III
- Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan
- Gaston IV
- Gazi Gümüshtigin
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- Guglielmo Embriaco
- Hugh I
- Iftikhar al-Dawla
- Kerbogha
- Kilij Arslan I
- Manuel Boutoumites
- Raymond IV
- Robert Curthose
- Robert II, Count of Flanders
- Stephen
- Tancred
- Tatikios
- William the Carpenter
Groups
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Armenian people
- Jews
- Kurdish people
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Germans
- Christians, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox
- Christians, Maronite
- Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Syrian people
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Toulouse, County of
- Flemish people
- Flanders, County of
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Normandy, Duchy of
- Normans
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Turkmen people
- Cyprus, East Roman (Byzantine)
- Fatimid Caliphate
- French people (Latins)
- France, (Capetian) Kingdom of
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Druze, or Druse, the
- Bulgaria, Theme of
- Lorraine (Lothier), Lower, (second) Duchy of
- Seljuq Empire (Isfahan)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Christians, Eastern Orthodox
- England, (Norman) Kingdom of
- Danishmends
- Rum, Sultanate of
- Apulia, Norman Duchy of
- Aleppo, Seljuq Emirate of
- Armenia, Baronry of Little, or Lesser
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored
- Antioch, Principality of
- Edessa, County of
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Years: 1100 - 1100
August
Locations
People
- Al-Afdal Shahanshah
- Alexios I Komnenos
- Baldwin I of Jerusalem
- Bohemond I of Antioch
- Constantine I
- Danishmend Gazi
- Edgar (the) Ætheling
- Eustace III
- Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan
- Gaston IV
- Gazi Gümüshtigin
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- Guglielmo Embriaco
- Hugh I
- Iftikhar al-Dawla
- Kerbogha
- Kilij Arslan I
- Manuel Boutoumites
- Raymond IV
- Robert Curthose
- Robert II, Count of Flanders
- Stephen
- Tancred
- Tatikios
- William the Carpenter
Groups
- Arab people
- Persian people
- Armenian people
- Jews
- Kurdish people
- Lombards (West Germanic tribe)
- Germans
- Christians, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox
- Christians, Maronite
- Christians, Miaphysite (Oriental Orthodox)
- Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Greeks, Medieval (Byzantines)
- Islam
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Syrian people
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Toulouse, County of
- Flemish people
- Flanders, County of
- Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad)
- Normandy, Duchy of
- Normans
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Turkmen people
- Cyprus, East Roman (Byzantine)
- Fatimid Caliphate
- French people (Latins)
- France, (Capetian) Kingdom of
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Druze, or Druse, the
- Bulgaria, Theme of
- Lorraine (Lothier), Lower, (second) Duchy of
- Seljuq Empire (Isfahan)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Christians, Eastern Orthodox
- England, (Norman) Kingdom of
- Danishmends
- Rum, Sultanate of
- Apulia, Norman Duchy of
- Aleppo, Seljuq Emirate of
- Armenia, Baronry of Little, or Lesser
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Komnenos dynasty, restored
- Antioch, Principality of
- Edessa, County of
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Subregions