High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1097
Crusaders cross Bosphorus
March 26, 1097
Alexios I ferried the main crusader armies from Constantinople to Asia Minor after extracting oaths of loyalty and promises that captured lands would return to Byzantine control. The emperor provided food, guides, and a contingent of his own troops. His alliance with the Latin armies was uneasy from the start.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.