High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1098
Battle of Antioch and Holy Lance
June 28, 1098
Inspired by the discovery of what was said to be the Holy Lance that had pierced Christ's side, starving Crusaders sallied out of Antioch and broke Kerbogha's besieging army. The miracle revived their morale and secured Antioch as a Latin principality under Bohemond's rule. Doubters questioned the lance from the start.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.