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The First and Second Crusades from an Anonymous Syriac Chronicle1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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IN the year 1405 (a.d. 1098, a.h. 472), fifty-one years after the Turks had conquered these lands, when Alexius was emperor in Constantinople, the Turk Yághí-Siyán (Aksin) had been made governor of Antioch by Abu 'l Fatḥ, the Egyptian Afḍal was in Jerusalem, which he had taken from the Turks Suqmán and his brothers, the sons of Ortuk, two years before, and all the sea-coast was subject to the Egyptians, Theodore Kurbalát the son of Hátim was in Edessa, which he had saved from the Turks, expecting to hand it over to the emperor. At this time many kings and chiefs of the Franks with a big army and workmen of all sorts, thousands and tens of thousands without end, got ready. There were four kings, leaders of armies, Bohemund, Godfrey (Gufra, Gundafra), Saint Gilles, and Tancred (Tangri) with many bishops and monks. They set their faces to go by land through Greek territory, and to cross by the Hellespont, where is Constantinople, and the two seas are joined by a narrow strait. They sent ambassadors to Alexius to prepare and go out with them, to get ready what was needful, and to arrange throughout his land stores of food and fodder for the use of the army. Alexius promised to help them in all they needed.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1933

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Page 69 note 2 Rightly 491.

Page 69 note 3 Malikshah.

Page 69 note 4 Hétom.

Page 69 note 5 Lacuna in MS.

Page 71 note 1 Lacuna.

Page 72 note 1 A little above al Bíra (Biredjik).

Page 72 note 2 Kogh-Basil, see Jorga, , Brêve Histoire de la Pétite Arménie (Paris, 1930), pp. 1718Google Scholar.

Page 72 note 3 Rather Sulaimán b. Malik Ghází Gnmushtagín b. Dánishmand, called by the Western chroniclers “Balduch”, and subsequently executed by Baldwin (cf. Albert, of Aix, iii, 21ff.Google Scholar, and v, 22). This passage suggests that “Balduch” was a family or territorial name.

Page 73 note 1 i.e. Greeks.

Page 73 note 2 ? error for 1406 (1099).

Page 73 note 3 a.d. 1109.

Page 73 note 4 ? Buṣra.

Page 74 note 1 Manbij.

Page 74 note 2 ar-Raqqa.

Page 74 note 3 a.d. 1100.

Page 74 note 4 William IX of Poitou (cf. Röhrieht, , Ges. d. Kōnigr. Jerusalem, 32Google Scholar).

Page 75 note 1 Lacuna in MS.

Page 75 note 2 Heb, Bar., Eccl. Chron., i, 463Google Scholar.

Page 75 note 3 This suggests that Ibn Dánishmand's capture of Malaṭia took place in a.d. 1103.

Page 77 note 1 a.d. 1101.

Page 77 note 2 Gurbagad. D may be due to dittography.

Page 78 note 1 No raid of Jikirmish upon Edessa before the battle of the Balíkh is mentioned in any other source. This apparently anticipates the raid of a.d. 1105.

Page 78 note 2 Hebræus, Bar, Chron. (ed. Paris), 279Google Scholar. Constantine.

Page 78 note 3 a.d. 1104.

Page 79 note 1 At the source of the Balíkh river, now Ra's al-'ain al Khalíl.

Page 79 note 2 7th May, 1104.

Page 80 note 1 Nephew of Bohemund.

Page 81 note 1 Najm ud-Dawla Málik b. Sálim al-'uqaili. On his relations with Joscelyn cf. Usáma b. Munqidh, tr. , Hitti (An Arab-Syrian Gentleman), pp. 119–20Google Scholar.

Page 81 note 2 Blank in MS.

Page 82 note 1 a.d. 1108.

Page 82 note 2 Dulúk, i.e. between Killiz and 'ain Ṭáb.

Page 82 note 3 The siege began in May, 1110. There was a Kasas Gate at Edessa.

Page 83 note 1 This relates to the second siege of Edessa, April-June, a.d. 1112.

Page 85 note 1 a.d. 1113.

Page 85 note 2 2nd October, 1113.

Page 85 note 3 December, 1112.

Page 85 note 4 a.d. 1118.

Page 85 note 5 a.d. 1113.

Page 85 note 6 10th December, 1113.

Page 86 note 1 a.d. 1114.

Page 86 note 2 September, 1115. The commander of the Muslim forces in this year was Bursuq b. Bursuq, not al-Bursuqi.

Page 86 note 3 a.d. 1118.

Page 87 note 1 Khartbart, now Kharput.

Page 87 note 2 a.d. 1119.

Page 88 note 1 28th June, 1119.

Page 88 note 2 August, 1119.

Page 88 note 3 a.d. 1120.

Page 89 note 1 May, 1120.

Page 89 note 2 ? Heathens

Page 89 note 3 a.d. 1121.

Page 89 note 4 8th November, 1122.

Page 89 note 5 Two sections relating to Greek affairs omitted.

Page 89 note 6 i.e. Qilij Arslan I of the Seljuqs of Rúm.

Page 90 note 1 December, 1124.

Page 90 note 2 Heb., Bar, Eccl. Chron., i, 389Google Scholar.

Page 91 note 1 September, 1122.

Page 91 note 2 April, 1123.

Page 93 note 1 August, 1123.

Page 93 note 2 16th September, 1123.

Page 94 note 1 6th May, 1124.

Page 96 note 1 a.d. 1124.

Page 96 note 2 November, 1126.

Page 96 note 3 October, 1124.

Page 96 note 4 January, 1125.

Page 98 note 1 June, 1125.

Page 98 note 2 The historian confuses Áq-sunqur al-Bursuqi, the deliverer of Aleppo, whose murder in 1126 is related above, with his son Mas'úd, who died at Raḥba in 1127.

Page 98 note 3 End of 1126.

Page 98 note 4 Fulk.

Page 99 note 1 a.d. 1129.

Page 99 note 2 a.d. 1130.

Page 99 note 3 Ghiyáth ud Dín.

Page 100 note 1 a.d. 1131.

Page 100 note 2 Raymond son of William of Poitou.

Page 100 note 3 a.d. 1094.

Page 101 note 1 Quite wrong. Mas'úd died in 1152, his brother Sulaimánshah did not succeed till 1159.