Though the overall command belonged to Gottfried de Bouillogne, anointed at the Council of Clermont, he remained in Antioch after taking Dorylaeum.
Though the overall command belonged to Gottfried de Bouillogne, anointed at the Council of Clermont, he remained in Antioch after taking Dorylaeum. Their forces were taken over by Cardinal Adhemar de le Puy, and by the Prince Tancred of Taranto, whom the poet Torquatto Tasso made the hero of a verse epic concerning this battle. Only 9 days of battle took place, making it the shortest siege in its campaign, lasting from the 6th to the 15th of July, whereupon the Byzantine tetrarch, Taticius, and Princess Clorinda of Christian Ethiopia both arrived on the same morning with reinforcements, prompting the city's Fatimid viceroy, Ifikar Al-dinno, to flee. FTP, identify this climactic battle of the First Crusade.
Though the overall command belonged to Gottfried de Bouillogne, anointed at the Council of Clermont, he remained in Antioch after taking Dorylaeum.
Siege of {Jerusalem} of 1099