Ashgate Publishing Inc. year 2006 ref The dynasty Danishmends established themselves in Anatolia in the aftermath .... A Seljuk Danishmend alliance was also responsible for defeating the Crusade of 1101 . In 1116, the Danishmends ..., the Sivas lands were incorporated into the Sultanate. Four years later, the Malatya Danishmends were defeated and also incorporated, marking the end of Danishmend rule. Danishmends in folklore ... to other edifices built by Danishmends. Rulers border 2 align leftcellpadding 3 cellspacing 3 bgcolor dddddd Danishmends Reign Notes bgcolor e5e5e5 Danishmend Gazi 1097 d. 1104 Also called Danishmend ... DEFAULTSORT Danishmends Category Anatolian beyliks Category 1178 disestablishments Category ... more details
The Fortress of Kaysun lang tr Kaysun Kalesi is located near the town of ak rh y k in the Ad yaman Province of rural southeastern Turkey . ref K y K y T rkiye Yol Atlas Istanbul Mapmedya, 2006 , map 171. ref The fortress was a stronghold of the crusader County of Edessa . In 1131, the Danishmends Danishmend Gazi G m shtigin G m shtigin besieged the place. Joscelin I, Count of Edessa Joscelin I , Count of Edessa, hastened to relieve the defenders and died somewhere in the vicinity. References references SEAnatolia geo stub coord missing Turkey Category County of Edessa Category Crusader castles Category Ad yaman Province it Kaysun ... more details
Emir Gazi G m shtigin Turkish Language tur. G m tekin died 1134 was the second ruler of the Danishmends Danishmend state which his father Danishmend Gazi had founded in central eastern Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert . He is sometimes called Emir Ghazi II . He succeeded his father when the latter died in 1104. In 1130, he allied with Leo I, Prince of Armenia against the crusade r Bohemond II of Antioch , who was killed in the subsequent battle Bohemond s head was embalmed and sent to the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad . G m shtigin may have been able to conquer more territory in the Principality of Antioch if not for the intervention of Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus , who wished to exert his own influence in Antioch. In 1131 he besieged the castle of Kaysun in the County of Edessa , but retreated upon the arrival of Joscelin I, Count of Edessa Count Joscelin , whom G m shtigin believed had already died. G m shtigin died in 1134 and the Danishmend state began to collapse under pressure from the Byzantines and the Seljuk Sultanate of R m . start box succession box title Danishmends Melik of Danishmends before Danishmend Gazi after Melik Mehmed Gazi years 1104 1134 end box Category Turkic rulers Category Muslims of the First Crusade Category 1134 deaths ca Amir Ghazi fr Gumuchtegin it G m shtegin ru tr Melik Gazi ... more details
One source date July 2011 Infobox military conflict conflict Battle of Melitene image caption partof the Crusade s date 1100 place Malatya , Turkey result Danishmend victory combatant1 Principality of Antioch combatant2 Danishmends commander1 Bohemond I of Antioch commander2 Malik Ghazi Gumushtekin strength1 Unknown strength2 Unknown casualties1 Most killed, a few captured casualties2 Unknown Campaignbox Seljuk Crusader War In the Battle of Melitene in 1100 , a Crusader force led by Bohemond I of Antioch was defeated by Danishmend Turks commanded by Malik Ghazi Gumushtekin . After acquiring the Principality of Antioch in 1098, Bohemond allied himself with the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Armenians of Cilicia . When Gabriel of Melitene and his Armenian garrison came under attack from the Danishmend state to their north, Bohemond marched to their relief with a Frankish force. Malik Ghazi s Danishmends ambushed the expedition and most of the Crusaders were killed. ref Eggenberger, p 272 ref Bohemond was captured along with Richard of Salerno . Among the dead were the Armenian bishops of Marash and Antioch . Bohemond was held for ransom until 1103, and his rescue became the object of one column of the ill fated Crusade of 1101 . This battle ended the string of victories enjoyed by the participants of the First Crusade . Baldwin of Boulogne Baldwin , Count of County of Edessa Edessa and later king of Jerusalem , successfully relieved Malatya Melitene afterward. However, the Danishmends seized the town in 1101. References Eggenberger, David. An Encyclopedia of Battles. New York Dover Publications, 1985. ISBN 0 486 24913 1 Footnotes references coord missing Turkey DEFAULTSORT Melitene, Battle Of Category Battles of the Crusades Category Battles involving the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia Category 11th century in Turkey Category 11th century crusades Category Conflicts in 1100 bg es Batalla de Melitene it Battaglia di Melitene nl Slag bij Melitene pl Bitwa pod ... more details
Gabriel of Melitene died 1102 ref http books.google.com books?id 1cKlL1vjqTwC&pg PA237&dq gabriel melitene v onepage&q &f false ref was the ruler of Melitene modern Malatya . Along with Thoros of Edessa , Gabriel was a former officer of Philaretos Brachamios . Philaretos had installed Gabriel as the ruler of Melitene. Following the death of Philaretos in 1086 Melitene became completely independent of Byzantine control with the aid of the Danishmends . Eventually the Danishmends began harassing Melitene. Gabriel appealed to Bohemund I of Antioch for assistance. In 1100 Bohemund came to Gabriel s aid along with his cousin Richard of Salerno and the Armenian Bishops of Marash and Antioch, but they were both captured and the Bishops slain by Malik Ghazi Gumushtekin , the Danishmend Emir of Sebastea , in the Battle of Melitene . Malik was now constantly raiding Gabriel s territories. Fearing an imminent attack on the city itself, Gabriel asked for help from Baldwin of Boulogne despite concerns that Baldwin might take over Melitene, as he did County of Edessa Edessa . Baldwin relieved the siege of Melitene and rescued Bohemund after which Gabriel recognized him as overlord of the city. He married a daughter, of unknown name, of Constantine I, Prince of Armenia . In 1101 Baldwin of Bourcq married their daughter Morphia of Melitene . Gabriel, who was reputedly very wealthy, gave 50,000 gold bezant s as a dowry . William of Tyre described Gabriel as Greek by religion, Armenian by race, language and custom. Byzantine seals bearing his name testify him as Gabriel, protonobelissimos and dux doux of Melitene. The Melitene Armenians initially met Crusaders with happiness but turned to the Danishmends due to Crusaders lootings and cruelties. Melik Ghazi sieged Melitene in beginning of 1101. The siege was firstly relieved by Baldwin. But Baldwin left only 50 soldiers in Melitene ref http www.kaliteliresimler.com img3005.htm ref . During the siege, the city suffered from shortages. ... more details
Masud I or Ma sud I Lang ar , Rukn al D n Mas d Lang tr I. Mesud was the sultan of the Sultanate of Rum Seljuqs of R m from 1116 until his death in 1156. Following the defeat and death of his father Kilij Arslan I by Fakhr al Mulk Radwan of Aleppo at the battle of Khabur river in 1107, ref Anatolia in the Period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks , Osman Turan, The Cambridge History of Islam , Ed. Peter Malcolm Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis, Cambridge University Press, 1970 , 239. ref Masud lost the throne in favor of Melikshah . With the help of the Danishmends , Masud captured Konya and defeated Malikshah in 1116. Masud would later turn on the Danishmends and conquer their lands. In 1130, he started construction of the Alaeddin Mosque Alaeddin mosque in Konya, which was later completed in 1221. ref Konya , Julie A. Miller, International Dictionary of Historic Places Southern Europe , Ed. Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1995 , 381. ref Masud, towards the end of his reign, fought against the armies of the Second Crusade . There were actually two armies, one led Germans German empreror Conrad III of Germany Conrad III and the other led by the France French king Louis VII of France Louis VII . Masud defeated both of them the first army in Dorylaeum near modern Eski ehir in 1147 ref Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Ascendancy From the Arab conquests to the siege of Vienna , Praeger Publishers, 2000 , 77. ref and the second army in Laodicea on the Lycus Laodicea near modern Denizli in 1148. When he died, Masud was succeeded by his son Kilij Arslan II . One of Masud s daughters married John Tzelepes Komnenos , a member of the royal house of Byzantium who had converted to Islam. References reflist Start box Succession box title Sultan of R m before Melikshah after Kilij Arslan II years 1116 1156 End box Sultans of Rum Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mesud 01 ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT ... more details
to the Middle East, 1095 1396 , University of Toronto Press, 2009 , 45. ref He then invaded the Danishmends ... with the Danishmends, and was away from Nicaea when these new Crusaders Siege of Nicaea besieged Nicaea ... him. In their march they took Ankara from Arslan upon the Danishmends. In alliance with Radwan the Atabeg ... it as well as the subsequent force a week later. In 1104 he resumed once more his war with the Danishmends .... As a result Bohemund allied with the Danishmends against R m and the Byzantines. War and death ... more details
Joscelin II of Edessa died 1159 was the fourth and last ruling County of Edessa count of Edessa . The young Joscelin was taken prisoner at the Battle of Azaz in 1125, but was ransomed by Baldwin II of Jerusalem Baldwin II , Kingdom of Jerusalem king of Jerusalem . In 1131, his father Joscelin I of Edessa Joscelin I was wounded in battle with the Danishmends , and Edessa passed to Joscelin II. Joscelin II refused to march the small Edessan army out to meet the Danishmends, so Joscelin I, in his last act, forced the Danishmends to retreat, dying soon after. Joscelin II ruled the weakest and most isolated of the Crusader states . In 1138 he allied with Principality of Antioch Antioch and Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus to attack Zengi , atabeg of Aleppo , although Zengi defeated them. Back in Antioch, sentiment against the Byzantine Empire , which John was trying to extend into the northern Crusader states, led to a riot, engineered by Joscelin. John was forced to return home. In 1143 both John II and Fulk of Jerusalem died, leaving Joscelin with no powerful allies to help defend Edessa, Mesopotamia Edessa . In 1144 Zengi invaded and Siege of Edessa captured Edessa itself. Joscelin fled to Turbessel , where he held the remnants of the county west of the Euphrates . When Yarankash , a Frankish slave, assassinated the violent, cruel, brutal, and drunk Zengi in September 1146, Joscelin managed to recapture Edessa in October 1146 and held it briefly thereafter, but with no help from the other Crusader states, the city was again lost in November, as Joscelin s expedition was driven out by Zengi s son Nur ad Din Zengi Nur ad Din . The Second Crusade , called in response to the fall of Edessa, eventually shifted its focus to Siege of Damascus Damascus . In 1150 whilst on route to Antioch, where he was looking to enlist help, Joscelin was taken prisoner by a group of brigands who then sold him to Nur ed Din. Joscelin was taken to the city of Aleppo where he was led before a ... more details
foreignchar Dilmac Beylik of Dilma Dimle or Demle was a small principality lang tr beylik in Anatolia East Anatolia part of modern Turkey founded in the 11th century . After the battle of Malazgirt in 1071 , the victorious Oghuz Turks Turkmen tribes led by ghazi warrior ghazi warriors began to settle in Anatolia. One of these warriors was Dilma o lu Mehmet son of Dilma . After the Great Seljuk Empire conquered the city of Bitlis the city was given to Mehmet as an ikta i.e., nonheritable property in 1085. ref http www.rehberim.net forum tarih cograyfa 418 62140 beylikler.html ref After conquering nearby town of Erzen now a hamlet , Mehmet died in 1104 . During the reign of his son Togan Aslan, the beylik was no more a vassal of Great Seljuk Empire. In the early years of his reign, Togan Aslan accepted the suzerainty of Artukids and together with Artukids, participated in a number of military operations against Crusaders , the most important being Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119 where Roger of Salerno lost his life. ref Prof.Ya ar Y cel Prof Ali Sevim T rkiye tarihi Cilt I , AKDTYKTTK Yay nlar , 1991, pp 160 ref After securing independence he also had to fight against other Turkic beyliks like Ahlatshahs S kmenli and former suzerain Artukids to defend Bitlis from attacks. After Togan s death 1134 ? his successors fought agains Georgia country Georgia and Danishmends . As the small principalities were replaced by greater powers the beylik had to accept the suzerainty of Ayyubids , Harzemshah Sultanate , Ilkhanids , and Timur . After the return of Timur, Akkoyunlu Akkoyunlu Turkmens captured all of their territory probably around 1410s. References references Medieval states in Anatolia Category Anatolian beyliks Category History of Bitlis Category Seljuq dynasty Category States and territories established in 1085 Category States in medieval Anatolia States in medieval Anatolia Category History of Bitlis Province az Dilma o ullar b yliyi fr Dilma o lu ru ... more details
Infobox Settlement more fields are available for this Infobox See Template Infobox Settlement settlement type Town subdivision type Countries of the world Country subdivision name TUR timezone Eastern European Time EET utc offset 2 map caption Location of B nyan within Turkey. timezone DST Eastern European Summer Time EEST utc offset DST 3 official name B nyan image skyline image caption image blank emblem blank emblem type image map Kayseri districts.png subdivision type1 Regions of Turkey Region subdivision name1 Central Anatolia subdivision type2 Provinces of Turkey Province subdivision name2 Kayseri population total population urban population as of population footnotes population density km2 area total km2 elevation m latd latm latNS longd longm longEW postal code type Postal code postal code 38x xx blank info 38 blank name Turkish car number plates Licence plate area code leader title Mayor leader name Mehmet zmen Nationalist Movement Party MHP website http www.bunyan.bel.tr www.bunyan.bel.tr gwebsite http www.bunyan.gov.tr www.bunyan.gov.tr B nyan is a town and a district of Kayseri Province in Central Anatolia , Turkey . The town s former name was Sar msakl , meaning land of garlic in reference to the region s considerable production of the Alliaceae plant, and this name is sometimes still used in the region. As for the origins of the current name of B nyan , there are several theories. The town is notable for its carpets B nyan carpet . One of the two Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate Seljuk caravanserai s named Sultan Han Kayseri Sivas Sultan Han is located near B nyan, as well as one of the several Danishmends Danishmend mausoleums referred to as Tomb of Melik Gazi , the one in B nyan in fact having been built at a later period, by a bey of Dulkadirids . The town has a 1333 built Great Mosque, a legacy of the Ilkhanate rule in Anatolia , built by the Ilkhanate governor based here. Districts of Turkey provname Kayseri coord 38.8483 N 35.86 E source kolossu ... more details
Anatolia is a big peninsula in West Asia and forms one of the two passages between Asia and Europe . All through history, many states both completely independent and vassal, were founded. Below is the list of states including principalities in Anatolia during middle ages. class sortable wikitable Name of the state Duration of rule Notes Ahis 1290 1362 Religious fraternity Aq Qoyunlu 1378 1508 Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia 1198 1375 Issued from Byzantine Empire Artuqids 1102 1233 Alaiye 1293 1471 Vassal of Karaman Aydinids 1300 1425 Jandarids later Isfendiyarids 1292 1461 Tzachas 1081 1098 Chobanids beylik Chobanids 1211 1309 Beylik of ubuko ullar 1085 1112 Vassal of Great Seljuk Empire Beylik of Demle 1085 1410 Dulkadirids 1348 1515 Eretnids 1335 1390 Issued from Ilkhanids Beylik of Erzincan 1378 1410 Issued from Eretnids Eshrefids 1285 1326 Germiyanids 1300 1429 Hamidids 1300 1391 Beylik of nal 1095 1183 Mostly vassal of its neighbours Kadi Burhan al Din Beylik of Kadi Burhan al Din 1381 1398 Continuation of Eretnids Karamanids 1277 1487 Karasids 1296 1357 Beylik of L dik 1262 1391 Mente e Beylik of Mente e 1261 1424 Perv neo lu Beylik of Pervane 1277 1322 Ramadanids 1252 1517 Mostly vassal of Mamluk Sultanate Cairo Memluks S hib Ata Beylik of Sahip Ata 1275 1341 Sarukhanids 1300 1410 Ahlatshahs 1100 1207 Beylik of Tanr bermi 1074 1098 Beylik of Teke 1321 1423 Issued from Hamidids Beyliks of Canik 1307 1460 Actually 6 beyliks Byzantine Empire 0395 1453 During 1204 1261 Empire of Nicea County of Edessa 1098 1149 Crusade r state Danishmends 1071 1178 Emirate of Armenia 0654 0884 Vassal of Abbasid Empire Arabic Empire Empire of Nicaea 1204 1261 Byzantine Empire after the loss of capital Empire of Trebizond 1204 1261 Issued from Byzantine Empire Kara Koyunlu Karakoyunlu Turkmens Black sheep Turkmens 1375 1468 Latin Empire 1204 1261 Crusader state Mengujekids 1072 1277 Ottoman Empire 1299 1922 Called Anatolian beyliks beylik in the early years Principality of Antioch ... more details
Use mdy dates date February 2011 Year dab 1104 Year nav 1104 C12 year in topic NOTOC Year 1104 Roman numerals MCIV was a leap year starting on Friday link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar . Events onlyinclude May 7 &ndash Battle of Harran Baldwin II of Jerusalem Baldwin II , County of Edessa count of Edessa , is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks Tancred, Prince of Galilee Tancred becomes regent. September 3 &ndash St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral . The Venice Arsenal is founded in Venice . Alfonso I of Aragon becomes List of Aragonese monarchs King of Aragon and List of Navarrese monarchs Navarre . List of historians Historian Guibert of Nogent becomes abbot of Notre Dame de Nogent. Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Akko Acre . Georgians under king David IV the builder defeat 100 000 Seljuks with only 1,500 warriors. Sultan Kilij Arslan I of Sultanate of R m starts a war with the Danishmends . Toghtekin Tu tekin , atabeg of Damascus founds a short lived principality in Syria. First example of a series of Seljukid atabeg dynasties. The volcano Hekla erupts in Iceland , destroying settlements. onlyinclude Births Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester d. 1168 Deaths Peter I of Aragon , List of Aragonese monarchs King of Aragon and List of Navarrese monarchs Navarre Duqaq , Seljuk ruler of Damascus References Reflist DEFAULTSORT 1104 Category 1104 af 1104 am 1104 . . . ar 1104 an 1104 ast 1104 az 1104 bn map bms 1104 be 1104 be x old 1104 bh bs 1104 br 1104 bg 1104 ca 1104 cv 1104 cs 1104 co 1104 cy 1104 da 1104 de 1104 et 1104 el 1104 es 1104 eo 1104 eu 1104 fa fr 1104 fy 1104 gd 1104 gl 1104 gan 1104 ko 1104 hy 1104 hi hr 1104. io 1104 bpy id 1104 os 1104 is 1104 it 1104 he 1104 jv 1104 ka 1104 kk 1104 sw 1104 ht 1104 almanak jilyen la 1104 lb 1104 lt 1104 m. hu 1104 mk 1104 mg 1104 mi 1104 mr . . ms 1104 nah 1104 nl 1104 new ja 1104 nap 1104 no 1104 nn 1104 nrm 110 ... more details
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Refimprove date October 2007 Image Seljuk Sultanate of Rum 1190 Locator Map.svg thumb 350px right Seljuk Sultanate of R m, 1190 Kilij Arslan II lang tr II. K l Arslan , lang ar , Izz al D n Qilij Arsl n bin Mas d meaning Lion Sword was a Sultanate of Rum Seljuk Sultan of R m from 1156 until his death in 1192. As Arnold of L beck reports in his Chronica Slavorum , he was present at the meeting of Henry the Lion with Kilij Arslan during the former s pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1172. When they met near Tarsus city Tarsus , the sultan embraced and kissed the German duke, reminding him that they were blood cousins amplexans et deosculans eum, dicens, eum consanguineum suum esse . When the duke asked for details of this relationship, Kilij Arslan informed him that a noble lady from the land of Germans married a king of Russia who had a daughter by her this daughter s daughter arrived to our land, and I descend from her. The Russian king in question is assumed to have been Svyatoslav II . In 1159, Kilij Arslan attacked Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus as he marched past Iconium Konya , capital of R m , as Manuel returned from negotiating with Nur ad Din Zengi in Syria . In 1161 Manuel s nephew John Contostephanus defeated Kilij Arslan, and the sultan travelled to Constantinople in a show of submission. In 1173 Kilij Arslan, now at peace with the Byzantines, allied with Nur ad Din against Mosul . The peace treaty with the Byzantines lasted until 1175, when Kilij Arslan refused to hand over to Manuel the territory conquered from the Danishmends , although both sides had for some time been building up their fortifications and armies in preparation for a renewed war. Kilij Arslan tried to negotiate, but Manuel invaded the sultanate in 1176, intending to capture Iconium itself. Kilij Arslan was able to defeat Emperor Manuel I Komnenos s army at the Battle of Myriokephalon , ref Rouben Paul Adalian, Historical Dictionary of Armenia , Scarecrow P ... more details
distinguish Sivas Vilayet Infobox Province TR name Sivas map Sivas in Turkey.svg region Central Anatolia licence 58 total population 642,224 tpop as of 2010 area code 346 area 28,488 Sivas ili The Sivas Province lang tr Sivas ili is a Provinces of Turkey province of Turkey . It located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolia n region of Turkey it is the second largest province in Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat Province Yozgat to the west, Kayseri Province Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmara Province Kahramanmara to the south, Malatya Province Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan to the east, Giresun Province Giresun to the northeast, and Ordu Province Ordu to the north. Its capital is Sivas, Turkey Sivas . The majority of Sivas Province shares the climate of the Central Anatolian Region in which the summer seasons are hot and dry while winter seasons are cold and snowy. However, the northern part of the province shares the Black Sea Climate while the eastern portion shares the climate of the Eastern Anatolian higher region. This province is noted for its thermal springs. Districts Sivas province is divided into 17 Districts of Turkey districts capital district in bold table td Ak nc lar Alt nyayla, Sivas Alt nyayla Divri i Do an ar Gemerek G lova G r n Hafik mranl td td Kangal Koyulhisar ark la Sivas Su ehri Ula Y ld zeli Zara Turkish district Zara td table History The route of the Silk Road and the Persian Royal Road run through Sivas. According to the written historical sources, the region of Sivas province was first inhabited during the period of the Hittites Hittite civilization by the beginning of 2000 BC and became an important settlement. The region then encountered the reign of Phrygia n, Lydia n, Assyria n, Roman Empire Roman , Byzantine Empire Byzantine , Seljuk Turks Seljukian , Danishmends Dani ment , Ilkhanate lhanl , Eretna and Ottoman Empire Ottoman civilizations. The foundations of the modern Turkey Turkish Republic were laid ... more details
Infobox royalty consort yes name Alice title Princess of Antioch image imgw 180px caption reign 1126 1130 spouse Bohemund II of Antioch issue Constance of Antioch house House of Rethel br House of Hauteville father Baldwin II of Jerusalem mother Morphia of Melitene birth date c. 1110 birth place Jerusalem death date c. after 1136 death place Latakia place of burial religion Roman Catholicism Alice of Jerusalem also Haalis , Halis , or Adelicia was a Princess of Jerusalem . She later became Princess of Antioch . Biography Alice was the second daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Morphia of Melitene . She has three sisters. She was an aunt of Kings Baldwin III of Jerusalem Baldwin III and Amalric I . Baldwin II had become regent of Antioch after the defeat of the principality at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119. In 1126, the 18 year old Bohemund II of Antioch Bohemund , son of Bohemund I of Antioch Bohemund I , the first prince of Antioch, arrived to claim his inheritance. Immediately after the principality was handed over to him, Bohemund was married to Alice the marriage was likely part of the negotiations prior to Bohemund s arrival. In 1130 Bohemund was killed in battle with the Danishmends , and Baldwin returned to Antioch to assume the regency, but Alice wanted the city for herself. She attempted to make an alliance with Zengi , the Seljuk Turks Seljuk atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo , offering to marry her daughter to a Muslim prince. The messenger sent by Alice to Zengi was captured on the way by Baldwin, and was tortured and executed. Alice refused to let Baldwin enter Antioch, but some of the Antiochene nobles opened the gates for Baldwin s representatives, Fulk of Jerusalem Fulk, Count of Anjou Alice s brother in law and Joscelin I of Edessa . Alice at first fled to the citadel but finally flung herself on her father s mercy and they were reconciled. She was expelled from Antioch, but was allowed to keep for herself Latakia and Jabala , the cities wh ... more details
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Infobox Christian leader name Michael the Syrian title Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church image alt caption church archdiocese diocese see Dioceses of the Syrian Orthodox Church Mardin Diocese of Mardin term 1166&mdash 1199 predecessor Athanasius VII bar Qutreh successor Athanasius VIII Orders ordination ordinated by consecration consecrated by rank Personal details birth date 1126 birth place Melitene , Danishmends Danishmend Kingdom death date Death year and age 1199 1126 df yes death place Melitene, Sultanate of R m previous post Michael the Syrian lang syc died 1199 AD , also known as Michael the Great lang syc or Michael Syrus or Michael the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew ref William Wright, A short history of Syriac literature , p.250, n.3. ref , was a List of Syriac Patriarchs of Antioch from 512 to 1783 patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1166 to 1199. He is best known today as the author of the largest medieval Chronicle , which he composed in Syriac language Syriac . Various other materials written in his own hand have survived. Life The life of Michael is recorded by Bar Hebraeus . ref Wright, Syriac Literature , p.250 f., referencing Bar Hebraeus, Chron. Eccl. vol. 1, p.575 f. ref He was born ca. 1126 in Melitene today Malatya , the son of the Priest Eliya Elias , of the Qindasi family. ref Wright, A short history of Syriac literature , p.250, n.4, referencing Bar Hebraeus , Chron. Eccles. , vol. 1, 537. ref His uncle, the monk Athanasius, became bishop of Anazarbus in Cilicia in 1136. At that period Melitene was part of the kingdom of the Turcoman Danishmends Danishmend dynasty , and, when that realm was divided in two in 1142, it became the capital of one principality. In 1178 it became part of the Sultanate of R m . The Jacobite monastery of Mar Bar Sauma was close to the town, and had been the patriarchal seat since the 11th century. As a child, Michael entered the service of the monastery, and became ... more details
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