Prominent figures in this conflict included the heretic Sophronia and the King of Ethiopia Arsaete I, the most powerful ally to King Aladino, whose capital city was besieged by the army of Godfrey de Bouillogne (bwee­YOWN­ye).
Prominent figures in this conflict included the heretic Sophronia and the King of Ethiopia Arsaete I, the most powerful ally to King Aladino, whose capital city was besieged by the army of Godfrey de Bouillogne (bwee­YOWN­ye). It formed the subject for the most famous epic by Torquatto Tasso, Gerushalemme Liberatta (zhe­roo­she­LEM­mei li­be­RAH­ta.), whose hero is the Christian paragon Tancred. Its first major conflict was the Battle of Antioch of 1097, and it culminated with the siege of Jerusalem. For ten points identify this Crusade, which in 1095 was famously instigated by Pope Urban II.
Prominent figures in this conflict included the heretic Sophronia and the King of Ethiopia Arsaete I, the most powerful ally to King Aladino, whose capital city was besieged by the army of Godfrey de Bouillogne (bwee­YOWN­ye).
First Crusade