Daily Medieval

Osman Ghazi is one of those many figures in history whose impact was large but whose life's details are not well known. We are not even ...

The Trebizond Empire  (the orange slice on the southern shore of the Black Sea illustration), founded in 1204 on the shores of the Black Sea...

The Second Crusade was the first to be led by European kings. It was announced by Pope Eugene III , preached widely by Bernard of Clairvaux ...

Alexios I Comnenos (1057 - 1118) was the Byzantine emperor during the start of the Crusades. Since the Byzantines were a part of the old Rom...

Kilij Arslan I (1079 - 1107) was the Sultan of Rum; it was he who had to deal with the Europeans of the First Crusade when they attempted t...

The Crusade of 1101 had high hopes: the First Crusade had already been successful, establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Germans, ...

To be thorough: there was more to the plan. Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium had requested help from the pope against invading Turks, and the ...