Crusade of 1101

Crusade of 1101
Part of the Crusades
A map of western Anatolia, showing the routes taken by Christian armies
Date Summer of 1101 Location Anatolia Result Decisive Turkish victory
Belligerents
Crusaders: Kingdom of France County of Blois Duchy of Burgundy County of Nevers Duchy of Aquitaine County of Vermandois Holy Roman Empire Milan Palatine County of Burgundy Duchy of Bavaria Margraviate of Austria Republic of Genoa Byzantine Empire Papal States	Sultanate of Rum Danishmends
Commanders and leaders
Anselm IV of Milan † Stephen of Blois † Stephen I of Burgundy Eudes I of Burgundy Constable Conrad Raymond IV of Toulouse General Tzitas William II of Nevers William IX of Aquitaine Hugh of Vermandois † Welf I, Duke of Bavaria Ida of Austria †	Kilij Arslan I Ridwan of Aleppo Danishmend Gazi
Casualties and losses
High	Relatively low

Crusaders:

Sultanate of Rum

The Crusade of 1101 was a minor crusade of three separate movements, organized in 1100 and 1101 in the successful aftermath of the First Crusade. It is also called the Crusade of the Faint-Hearted due to the number of participants who joined this crusade after having turned back from the First Crusade.

Calls for reinforcements from the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, and Pope Paschal II, successor to Pope Urban II (who died before learning of the outcome of the crusade that he had called), urged a new expedition. He especially urged those who had taken the crusade vow but had never departed, and those who had turned back while on the march. Some of these people were already scorned at home and faced enormous pressure to return to the east; Adela of Blois, wife of Stephen, Count of Blois, who had fled from the Siege of Antioch in 1098, was so ashamed of her husband that she would not permit him to stay at home.

As in the first crusade, the pilgrims and soldiers did not leave as a part of one large army, but rather in several groups from various different regions from across Western Europe. In September 1100, a large group of Lombards left from Milan. These were mostly untrained peasants, led by Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan. When they reached the territory of the Byzantine Empire, they pillaged it recklessly, and Byzantine emperor Alexios I escorted them to a camp outside Constantinople. This did not satisfy them, and they made their way inside the city where they pillaged the Blachernae palace, even killing Alexios' pet lion. The Lombards were quickly ferried across the Bosporus and made their camp at Nicomedia, to wait for reinforcements.

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