First Crusade
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The First Crusade lasted from 1096 - 1099 and saw the foundation of the Crusader States, most significantly the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Its leaders included Raymond of Toulouse, Godfrey de Bouillon and Stephen of Blois.
The armies, consisting primarily of forces from Western Europe, gathered in Constantinople, much to the alarm of locals.
The Crusader armies took Nicaea in the June of 1097, and in July defeated the sultan of Rum in the Battle of Dorylaeum. Then followed the siege of Antioch, which finally fell in the June of 1098.
Jerusalem was captured in 1099, leading to the massacre of the non-Christian inhabitants of that city. With the death of Godfrey de Bouillon in 1100 Baldwin of Flanders became King of Jerusalem.
