1149

1149

1149

Calendar year

Year 1149 (MCXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

This article is about the year 1149. For the IEEE standard, see JTAG.
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The Battle of Inab (or Ard al-Hatim)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Levant

  • Spring – Nur al-Din, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, invades the Principality of Antioch and defeats the Crusaders under Raymond of Poitiers at Baghras. He moves southward to besiege the fortress of Inab, one of the few strongholds of the Crusaders east of the Orontes River. Raymond with a small army (supported by the Assassin allies under Ali ibn Wafa) hurries to its rescue. Nur al-Din, misinformed of the strength of the Crusader forces, retreats. In fact the Zangid forces (some 6,000 men) outnumber the Crusaders by over four to one. Against Ali's advice Raymond decides to reinforce the garrison of Inab.[2]
  • April – King Louis VII and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine sail homeward in separate Sicilian ships. While the fleet rounds the Peloponnese (southern Greece) it is attacked by ships of the Byzantine navy. Louis gives orders to raise the French flag and is allowed to sail on. But the ships containing many of his followers and his possessions are captured and taken as a war-prize to Constantinople.[3]
  • June 29 – Battle of Inab: The Zangid army under Nur al-Din defeats the combined army of Raymond of Poitiers and the Assassins of Ali ibn Wafa at Inab. After the battle, Nur al-Din invades Antiochene territory and captures the fortresses of Artah and Harim. He then turns west to appear before the walls of Antioch itself and raids as far as St. Symeon.[4]
  • July – King Baldwin III receives an urgent request for help from Antioch to break the incomplete Zangid blockade of the city. Meanwhile, the Crusaders fail to retake Harim.[5] Nur al-Din strengthens his siege of Antioch, but it is too large to surround. A truce is agreed under which Harim and farther east territory remains under Seljuk dominance.
  • July 15 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is consecrated, after reconstruction.

Europe

Britain

By topic

Commerce

  • Genoa grants the benefits of a part of the city's fiscal revenues to a consortium of creditors called compera, the first example of the consolidation of public debt in medieval Europe.[7]

Religion

  • April 8 – Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Tusculum where he meets Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He attempts to reunite the couple by insisting to restore the love between them.[8]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. [1]
    Norwich, John (1995). Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, pp. 98 and 103. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-679-41650-1.
  2. [2]
    Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 266. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. [3]
    Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 232. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  4. [4]
    Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 266. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  5. [5]
    David Nicolle (2009). The Second Crusade 1148: Disaster outside Damascus, p. 83. ISBN 978-1-84603-354-4.
  6. [6]
    McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
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    Munro, John H. (2003). "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution". The International History Review. 25 (3): 506–562. doi:10.1080/07075332.2003.9641005. S2CID 152336222.
  8. [8]
    Norwich, John (2012). The Popes: A History. London: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-099-56587-1.
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