Crusader States Defence
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- Created on: 16-05-16 14:04
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- Crusader States
- To what extent was the defensive situation transformed between the 1st and 2nd Crusades?
- Seaports
- Help from European Navies
- 1124- Tyre capitulated after attack from Venetian fleet
- 1104- King Sigurd's Norwegian fleet took Beirut + Salon
- 1104- Acre port captured
- Genoese quarter - different rights and privileges
- Help from European Navies
- 1124- Tyre capitulated after attack from Venetian fleet
- 1104- King Sigurd's Norwegian fleet took Beirut + Salon
- Help from European Navies
- Pilgrim service industry - food, rest, guidance
- Genoese quarter - different rights and privileges
- 10+ ports captured
- Controlled trade, wealth for defence of CS
- Tyre - royal protection to Egyptian traders Abu Ibn Izz ad-Din
- Safely harbour ally ships, prevent Egyptian landing
- Help from European Navies
- Declining Relationship with Byzantium Empire
- Poor relationship
- Competition with Antioch
- Competition with Antioch
- Poor relationship
- Castles
- Stone towers for acquisition of territory
- Established control over newly-captured territory
- Castles centre of rural land, neighbouring population paid rent/tax
- Some for defence
- Gaston Casle controlled Belen Pass in Appanus Mountains
- Stone towers for acquisition of territory
- Strengthening of Muslim Response
- Zengi
- 1144-Captured Edessa, slew 15000, damaged relics
- Nur ad-Din
- 1146-allied with Seljuk Sultan of Rum against Antioch
- Massacred 30000 Edessans trying to take back city
- Zengi
- Seaports
- Military Orders
- 1130s - Templars established
- Built / garrisoned castles
- Many Europeans preferred M.O. donations to Crusading
- Opportunity to join Church order/honour God without Monk's quiet service
- Violent action allowed in defence of Chuch
- Opportunity to use/test Chivalric skills
- 1130s - Templars established
- To what extent was the defensive situation transformed between the 1st and 2nd Crusades?
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