High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics

1116

Adelaide del Vasto sails for Jerusalem

1116

The widowed regent of Sicily, lured by Baldwin I's offer of a crown, arrived in Acre with ships laden with Sicilian gold. Baldwin set aside his Armenian wife to marry her, then repudiated Adelaide when the gold ran out. The slight hardened Sicilian hatred of the Crusader kingdom for generations.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1115: Hassan-i Sabbah dies at Alamut
After: 1117: Al-Hariri completes the Maqamat

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1115: Mixtec ruler Eight Deer sacrificed
After: April 2, 1118: Death of Baldwin I of Jerusalem

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Adelaide del Vasto