High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1098
County of Edessa founded
March 10, 1098
Baldwin of Boulogne, separating from the main Crusade, reached Edessa on the Upper Euphrates where the Armenian ruler Thoros adopted him as son. Within weeks Thoros had been murdered by the townspeople and Baldwin was installed as the first Latin ruler in the East. The first Crusader state was born.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.