Survival of the Crusader States till 1144
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- Survival of the Crusader States till 1144
- Italian Maritime States
- Provided link back to the West
- Helped capture coastal ports
- Defeated Fatamid navy 1107
- Trading rights onto Silk Road meant ensured interest in survival
- 1108 Sidon and 1111 Tyre, both attempts to take the ports by land were failures
- Military Orders
- Knights Templar and Hospitallers
- By 1100, 1000 beds, took all but lepers in
- Provided better care than in the West
- Founded as far back as 1080s, officially ordained in 1154
- Were independent of the King + Papal support made them untouchable
- Response to Easter massacre of 500 pilgrims along River Jordan
- Also Field of Blood 1119
- Founded 1119, officially consecrated 1128
- Given Krak des Chevaliers 1140s
- By 1100, 1000 beds, took all but lepers in
- Knights Templar and Hospitallers
- Effective Leadership
- Baldwin I
- Captured coastal towns
- Defensive and agricultural castle building
- Montreal 1115
- Baldwin II
- Marriage of Melisende and Fulk of Anjou
- Relieved Antioch after Field of Blood
- Alliance with Damascus 1128
- Imprisoned 1123-24
- Fulk of Anjou
- Ended civil war in Antioch
- Relieved Antiochene nobles during civil war 1130s
- Could not prevent civil war in Jerusalem
- Baldwin I
- Muslim Disunity
- Sunni and Shia division
- Death of Malik Shah 1092
- Disunity between Ridwan of Aleppo and Duqaq of Damascus
- Kerbogha's generals distrustful of him
- Sultan preoccupied with any rival claimants and war with Shia
- No overall leadership
- 1111, Minbar was broken in Baghdad Mosque in response to the inactivity of the Sultan
- 3 expeditions into Syria 1110-1115, all unsuccessful in bringing Emirs together
- Idea of Jihad rose in 1105 + Zengi's leadership
- Sunni and Shia division
- Italian Maritime States
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