[149] Bohemond III died in 1201. In this lesson you will be able to identify which countries are considered to have been part of the crusader states and why. [215][216], Prawer argued that no major Western cultural figure settled in the states, but that others were encouraged East by the expression of imagery in western poetry. "Crusader States." Ethnically-based communities were self-governing with relations between communities controlled by the Franks. Possibly, it began as a knightly confraternity of a type common for the time. The crusaders who founded and ruled these states were a tiny elite of Latin Christians from Western Europe, dependent economically on the local population – composed predominantly of Byzantine, Syrian, and Maronite Christians, with smaller populations of Jews, Muslims, and new settlers from the West – all speaking a variety of languages. [190][191] Little research has been done on Islamic conversion but the available evidence led Ellenblum to believe that around Nablus and Jerusalem Christians remained a majority. He also re-established the Egyptian navy. The New Testament presented it as the principal venue of the acts of Jesus and his Apostles. Tyre, Beirut and Sidon all surrendered without a fight. Frederick left for Italy in May 1229, never to return. [82] Aleppo had plunged into anarchy, but Bohemond could not exploit it because of a conflict with Joscelin. By 1113 the order had transformed from a lay to a papally recognised religious organisation. [188], Modern research indicate Muslims and indigenous Christian populations were less integrated than previously thought. The loss of the vast majority of rural fiefs evolved the baronage into an urban mercantile class where knowledge of the law was a valuable, well-regarded skill and a career path to higher status. The Crusaders would, against all odds, rule Jerusalem again from 1229 to 1243 CE, thanks to the Sixth Crusade (1228-1229 CE) and the negotiating skills of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (r. 1220-1250 CE). You will also explore the different groups of people who lived within the crusader states. Initially, there were massacres of local populations in the Crusader States as the European nobles imposed their feudal system of governance on the region, but the westerners soon realised that to hold on to their gains they needed the support of the extraordinarily diverse local populations. Qalawun's death did not hinder the successful Mamluk siege of the city. When Daimbert of Pisa, the papal legate, arrived in the Levant with 120 Pisan ships, Godfrey gained much needed support by backing him for the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, along with granting him parts of Jerusalem and the Pisans a section of the port of Jaffa. Toleration continued but there was an interventionist papist response from Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre. [64], In August 1099 Godfrey defeated Fatimid vizier, Al-Afdal Shahanshah at Ascalon. Turkic migration permeated the Middle East from the 9th century, when border raiders captured unconverted Turkic nomads in the borderlands and sold them to Islamic leaders. With the baronage's consent, Amalric's cousin, Raymond III of Tripoli, assumed the regency for Baldwin IV as bailli. They invaded Cilicia. The 1162 the assise sur la ligece expanded the court's membership to all 600 or more fief-holders. Baldwin denied Alice control, instead resuming the regency up until his death in 1131. [58] In Western Europe at that time an advocatus was a layman responsible for the protection and administration of church estates. One claimant sold the title of king to Charles of Anjou. The four small states were the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Edessa, the County of Tripoli, and the Principality of Antioch. Jaffa surrendered and Baibers reduced the influence of the military orders by capturing the castles of Krak des Chevaliers and Montfort before returning his attention to the Mongols for the remainder of his life. As an outpost, the Crusader states kept a military focus. Leo and Raymond-Roupen exhausted Antioch with frequent destructive raids and in 1216 occupied the city during another of Bohemond IV's absences. Conrad never visited his kingdom, control passed through a succession of Cypriot and Ibelin regents. Raymond allowed Muslim troops to pass through Galilee to raid around Acre. The crusader states established in the Middle East (Outremer) as a result of the First Crusade: the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Tripoli, the County of Edessa, and the Principality of Antioch. Significant disruption was caused by this. This brought the War of the Lombards to a close. Defeat at Dorylaion in Asia Minor on 25 October 1147 CE and the failed siege of Damascus in July 1148 CE led to its swift abandonment, and the Crusader States were back on their own again. [231] Christopher Tyerman points out the challenges are not a return to older theories, the sources remain the same and the archaeological materials are virtually unprovable. [39] The local quadis took control of Tyre and Tripoli; the Arab Banu Munqidh seized Shaizar; Tutush's sons Duqaq and Ridwan succeeded in Damascus and Aleppo respectively, but their atabegs, Janah ad-Dawla and Toghtekin, were in control; Ridwan's retainer Sokman ben Artuq held Jerusalem; and Ridwan's father-in-law, Yağısıyan ruled Antioch; a warlord representing Byzantine interests, called Thoros, seized Edessa. The kingdom of Jerusalem covered what is now Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and adjacent areas. Largely indigenous agricultural production flourished before the fall of the First Kingdom in 1187 but was negligible afterwards. Muslim armies were incohesive and seldom campaigned outside the period between sowing and harvest. This may have been to dissuade the more popular Godfrey from assuming the throne, but Godfrey adopted the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ("Defender of the Holy Sepulchre") when he was proclaimed the first Frankish ruler of Jerusalem. Romanos's capture and Byzantine factionalism that followed broke Byzantine border control. The crusader leaders learnt of the chaotic state of Muslim politics through surprisingly frequent diplomatic relations with the Muslim powers of North Syria and the Egyptian Caliphate. Zengi soon seized Homs from the Damascene, but a Damascene–Jerusalemite coalition prevented him from attacking Damascus. Any male heir of this marriage would be the heir to both Antioch and Armenia. [133][134] After seizing Aleppo, Saladin granted a truce to Bohemond and made preparations for an invasion of Jerusalem. [89] In 1133, the Antiochene nobility asked Fulk to propose a husband for Constance and he selected Raymond of Poitiers, a younger son of William IX of Aquitaine. [8], Known as the Holy Land, Palestine was respected as an exceptionally sacred place by Jews, Christians and Muslims. [77] The Syrian Muslim rulers saw the Sultan's intervention as a threat to their autonomy and collaborated with the Franks. [214] Largely located in the ports of Acre, Tyre, Tripoli, and Sidon, communes of Italians, Provençals and Catalans had distinct cultures and exerted autonomous political power separate from the Franks. Ask Question + … [217] Historians consider military architecture demonstrates a synthesis of the European, Byzantine and Muslim traditions providing the original and impressive artistic achievement of the crusades. The Byzantines took advantage reconquering Cilicia and taking the port, but not the citadel, of Laodikeia. This was an area where ethnic, religious, dynastic, and commercial interests collided and the causes of war could be numerous. His treaties establishing Damascene–Jerusalemite condominiums in debated territories created precedents for other Muslim leaders. Merchants came from Arabia, Iraq, Byzantium, North Africa, and Italy. Antioch became a centre of cultural interchange through Greek and Arabic speaking Christians. The Ancient History Encyclopedia logo is a registered EU trademark. [37] The region had always been highly urbanized and the local societies were organized into networks of interdependent settlements, each centered around a city or a major town. In 1207/1208 Bohemond suppressed an Antiochene revolt by the Latin patriarch of Antioch and the exiled nobles. The Persian missionary Hassan-i Sabbah led a breakaway group, creating the Nizari branch of Isma'ilism. Alexios withdrew, rather than join the siege after the deserting Stephen, Count of Blois told him its defeat was imminent. Mural Towers, Krak des Chevaliersby Bernard Gagnon (CC BY-SA). This split was consolidated in 969 with the rise of the Shia Fatimids in Egypt. Daimbert revived the notion of creating an ecclesiastic principality and extorted oaths of fealty from Godfrey and Bohemond. Books This lesson will allow you to form an overview of the different people who lived in the crusader states and how and why this changed throughout time. Baldwin reached the age of 15 and majority ending Raymond's regency. The remaining central control was exercised at the High Court or Haute Cour, which was also known in Latin as Curia generalis and Curia regis, or in vernacular French as parlement. Royal powers were abrogated and governance was undertaken within the feudatories. As Saladin remitted suspiciously small revenue payments to him, Nur ad-Din began gathering troops for an attack on Egypt, but he died in May 1174. [164], In 1268, Charles I of Anjou executed the titular king of Jerusalem, Conradin, in Naples after his victory at Tagliacozzo bringing the Hohenstaufen male line to an end. Baldwin married Manuel's niece,Theodora and received a significant dowry. Russell acknowledges that much of Anatolia was Christian or under the Byzantines and that some purportedly Islamic areas such as Mosul and Baghdad had significant Christian populations. [54] When they later learnt of Alexios's withdrawal Bohemond claimed the city and the other leaders agreed, apart from Raymond who supported the Byzantine alliance. The arduous march had greatly reduced the two rulers' forces. Mamluk military commanders acting for young Seljuk princes as tutors and guardians held the position of atabeg ("father-commander"). Intuitive strategic thinking, Tibble argues, was a necessity, not a luxury. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Bohemond's nephew Tancred of Hauteville and Godfrey's brother Baldwin of Bologne were persuaded to submit after attempting to avoid the commitment by independently crossing the Bosphorus. However, Franks needed to maintain productivity, so the villagers were tied to the land. [59], The foundation of the three crusader states did not modify the political situation in the Levant profoundly. Nearly all the major Frankish leaders were taken prisoner, but only Raynald and the armed monks of the military orders were executed. This book is devoted to the resulting settlements, the crusader states, that developed around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and survived until Richard the Lionheart's departure in 1192. He holds an MA in Political Philosophy and is the Publishing Director at AHE. 4, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Principality Antioch, County of Edessa, County of Tripoli. Cities had specialised industrial quarters where tanneries, abattoirs, blacksmiths, and many others produced the goods needed for the community. Those paying direct homage to the king became members of the Haute Cour. The dispute resulted in the march stalling in north Syria after the capture of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man. 13th century charters indicate this increased after the loss of the first kingdom redressing the Franks’ lost income. The Franks retained earlier Byzantine detail, but added northern French, Aquitanian and Provençal style arches and chapels. [64] The most powerful Syrian Muslim ruler, Toghtekin of Damascus, adopted a practical approach when dealing with the Franks. [165] The succession was disputed between the descendants of the daughters of Isabella I. Hugh III of Cyprus was the grandson of Alice of Champagne, Isabella's daughter by Henry of Champagne. [107] The Fatimid Caliphate had rival viziers, Shawar and Dirgham, both eager to seek external support. The Crusader States (aka the Latin East or Outremer) were created after the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE) in order to keep hold of the territorial gains made by Christian armies in the Middle East. [102][103] Raynald lacked financial resources. Saladin had been as good as his word but the West would not give up their presence so easily. Answer. [161] Baibers reformed governance in Egypt giving power to the elite military mamluks refashioning the empire of Saladin. It was generations before the Muslims recognised that they could not conquer the Franks without destroying the Frankish fortresses. Raynald urged an offensive, while Raymond proposed defensive caution, although Saladin was besieging his castle of Tiberias. Thierry, Baldwin, Raynald and Raymond III of Tripoli attacked Shaizar. These kings of Jerusalem had greater internal power than comparative western monarchs but there was not the necessary personnel and administrative systems for governance of such a large realm. Proposals to govern the city as an ecclesiastical state were rejected. The Franks changed strategy from the tactics of gaining and holding territory to attempting the destruction of Egypt. And don't forget the Real Crusades History website! The Templars became a template for the Order of Teutonic Knights in 1198, based on a Hospitaller confraternity at the siege of Acre in 1190. The next two years Tancred ruled Antioch and conquered Byzantine Cilicia and parts of Syria. In this lesson you will be able to identify which countries are considered to have been part of the crusader states and why. In Antioch, Constance resisted pressure to remarry, until 1153 when she chose the French nobleman Raynald of Châtillon as her second husband. [155] Filangieri was supported by Bohemund IV of Antioch, the Teutonic Knights, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Pisans. Gümüshtekin's rival Ibn al-Muqaddam seized Damascus, but soon surrendered it to Saladin. It brought disruptive nomadism to the sedentary society of the Near East and set a pattern followed by other nomadic Turkish clans (like the Danishmendids and Artuqids). Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled society of the eleventh century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. Cartwright, Mark. In 1198 he called a new Crusade through legates and encyclical letters. A month after Baldwin's arrival a Christian mob killed Thoros and acclaimed him as doux, the Byzantine title that Thoros had used. Crusader states were permanently on the brink of destruction; resources were scarce and the penalties for failure severe. The Levant often functioned as the middleman charging import and export duties on goods that passed through (between 4 and 25% of their total value). The region saw a brand new threat, too, the ever-expanding Mongol Empire. When Saladin besieged Aleppo in 1174, Raymond led a relieve army to the city; when next year a united Zengid army invaded Saladin's realm, he signed a truce with Saladin. Home. After Urban II’s rallying speech at the Council of Clermont in November 1095 CE, a Crusader army was assembled numbering around 60,000 men and including some 6,000 knights. Exit Quiz. The ‘Crusader States’ were a series of Christian kingdoms established by crusaders from the time of the First Crusade in the region of the Holy Land. Textiles with silk particularly prized, glass, dyestuffs, olives, wine, sesame oil and sugar were exported; [210], The Franks provided an import market for clothing and finished goods. In May Saladin turned his attention to Tripoli and Antioch. [16][17] Seljuk success was achieved by extreme violence. The childless Raymond died and Bohemond's younger son, also called Bohemond, assumed power in Tripoli. Rather, contact was limited to legal, economic, and administrative affairs. [20][21] Although the Seljuk state effectively worked as far as family ties and personal loyalty overlapped the leaders' personal ambitions, the lavish iqta' grants combined with rivalries between maliks, atabegs and military commanders could lead to disintegration in critical moments. The Latin East had all but collapsed, only Tyre remained in Christian hands under the command of Conrad of Montferrat, as well as a handful of castles, but they would prove crucial for the next stage of the seemingly never-ending war. Askalon, the Fatimids' last Palestinian bridgehead, hindered Frankish raids against Egypt, but Baldwin captured the town in 1153. Charles declined the offer. Christians lived around Jerusalem and in an arc stretching from Jericho and the Jordan to Hebron in the south. An embassy to Europe was met with offers of money but not of military support. Public opinion attributed a series of disasters affecting the Outremer—defeats by enemy forces and plagues of locusts—as punishments for the Franks' sins. [230] Relations between Europeans and the Islamic world stretched across the length of the Mediterranean Sea making it difficult for historians to identify what proportion of cultural cross-fertilisation originated in the crusader states, Sicily and Spain. The initial goal was to aid the remaining Crusader states in Syria, but the mission was redirected to Tunis, where Louis died. [138], Saladin signed a 4-year truce with Jerusalem and attacked Mosul. The first four Crusader states were created in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade: The first Crusader state, the County of Edessa, was founded in 1098 and lasted until 1149. [120], Upholding the balance of power in Syria was apparently Raymond's main concern during his regency. Denys Pringle, a specialist in Frankish architecture, notes that new architectural research does not contradict the segregationist view of Frankish society that earlier in the 20th century, Hans Eberhard Mayer had already written that the number of Franks living in rural settlements should not be underestimated. [187] The template presented by these two organisations led to the formation of further orders in the Iberian Peninsula and Christendom's northern borders. [131] The Franks adopted a defensive tactic and strengthened their fortresses. [184], The Knights Hospitaller or Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem began in the 1080s with an Amalfitano funded hospital in Jerusalem. In 1107, Bohemond crossed the Adriatic Sea and failed in besieging Dyrrachion in the Balkan Peninsula. [146], According to Ernoul, in Tyre[when?] Prawer's 1972 work, The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem:European Colonialism in the Middle Ages extended this analysis: the lack of integration was based on economics with the Franks' position depending on a subjugated, disenfranchised local population. [27][28] Theological, liturgical and cultural differences gave rise to the development of competing Christian denominations in the Levant already before the 7th-century Muslim conquest. The Seljuks were only taking over from Fatimids of Egypt, but they posed a serious threat to the Byzantine Empire, and its emperor, Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118 CE), asked for help from the West. Antioch was captured in 1268, Tripoli in 1289. Passionate sermons raised religious fervour and probably more people took crusader oath than during recruitment for the previous crusades. Web. [1][2] The Latin chronicles of the First Crusade in the early 11th century, called the Western Christians that came from many countries of Europe Franci irrespective of their ethnicity. By the close of the 11th Century, Western Europe had fully emerged from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to become a power, though it still lagged behind the Byzantine Empire (330-1453), Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171), Abbasid Caliphate (750-1517) and the Selijuk Empire (1037-1194). Raymond died first. The principality was another Crusader State that the Byzantine Empire - the former owners of that territory, of course - took a perpetual interest in, even though Bohemund refused to return Antioch as he had promised before the Crusade. The column capitals of the south facade follow classical Syrian patterns but there is little evidence of indigenous influence in sculpture. The barons valued this ability to articulate the law. These were known as ghilman or mamlukand were emancipated when converted to Islam. According to Ambroise and Itinerarium Peregrinarum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, Conrad bribed the princes to allow him to marry Isabella, Sibylla's half-sister, despite her marriage to Humphrey of Toron and the belief that he had two living wives. Western European populations and economies were booming, creating a growing social class that wanted artisanal products and eastern imports. Castles were a symbol of the dominance of the Frankish minority over a largely hostile majority population that acted as administrative centres. [183], The success of the formula pioneered in gathering donations, manpower and political control of whole regions led to imitative local orders in the Iberian Peninsula in the fight with the Moors, on Christendom's frontiers around the Baltic against pagans, in southern France and Italy to fight heretics. Lesson 3. The caliphs retained legitimacy and prestige, but the sultans held political power in the lands under the caliphs' rule. Papal support, privileges and immunities followed along with donations of estates across Western Europe and the Levant. These barons established a commune to protect their interests. In the period from 1256 to 1288 this resulted in a civil war known as the War of Saint Sabas over jurisdictions between the Genoese and the Venetians. Tripoli was saved by the arrival of William II of Sicily's fleet. The differences between military confraternities and military orders were not always clear. At Jerusalem, for example, the large estate owners, along with leading church figures and representatives of the military orders, attended a regular public debating forum, a parlement, in which opinions were aired and decisions made on such issues as taxes and foreign diplomacy. The populations of the Crusaders states were certainly cosmopolitan, the larger groups consisting of Greek Orthodox Christians, Armenian Christians, Jews, Bedouin Arabs, and Muslims of various sects. It enabled entry into Anatolia for large numbers of Turkic warbands who raided, engaged in local politics or acted as swords-for-hire and nomadic, pastoralist tribesmen who sought grazing. The barons assembling at Nablus offered the crown to Isabella's husband Humphrey IV of Toron, but he submitted to Sybilla to avoid a civil war. [156] The kingdom was reliant on Ayyubid division, the military orders and western aid without Frederick's resources. Lesson overview: What were the crusader states? Central areas had predominantly Sunni Muslim population, but Shi'ite communities existed in Galilee. On arrival in the Holy Land, the Crusade was remarkably successful for such a complex international military operation in unfamiliar territory. The County of Tripoli, with its capital at the important seaport of Tripolis (modern Tripoli), then the most important port of Damascus, covered an area which is today Lebanon and was founded by Raymond of Toulouse. [139][140], Guy and the barons now gathered a large force, committing all the available Frankish resources. [185] During the 12th and 13th centuries these communities of warrior monks married the medieval ideals of monasticism and knighthood [186] They became Latin Christendom's first professional armies and supranational organisations with autonomous powers in the region. The legal system was now largely based on custom and the memory of the lost legislation. In February 1183, a Jerusalemite assembly levied an extraordinary tax for defence funding. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built to commemorate Christ's crucifixion and resurrection in Jerusalem. Raymond refused the royal title claiming only Christ could wear a crown in Jerusalem. Eventually, some mamluk descendants climbed the Muslim hierarchy to become king makers or even dynastic founders. They hastened to Jerusalem and married wealthy heirs. This was rejected by the 20th century historians whose consensus view was that the Franks, as the western European were known, lived as a minority society that was largely urban, isolated from the indigenous peoples, with separate legal and religious systems. [223], Modern historians have developed a broad consensus on relationships between the Frankish and native communities in the crusader states. [218] Modern historiography rejects the 19th-century consensus that Westerners learnt the basis of military architecture from the Near East. https://www.ancient.eu/Crusader_States/. Territorial consolidation followed, including the taking of Tripoli. [129][130] Between 1180 and 1183, Saladin asserted his suzerainty over the Artuqids, concluded a peace treaty with the Rum Seljuks, and seized Aleppo from the Zengids. This was known as the New Preaching in Syria and Order of Assassins in western historiography. Bohemund returned to Italy to recruit allies and gather supplies, Tancred assumed leadership in Antioch and his cousin Richard of Salerno in Edessa. His son and successor, Baldwin IV, was 13 and a leper. [206], Olives, grapes, wheat, and barley were the important agricultural products before Saladin's conquests. The larger cities were thriving commercial centres with many foreign traders either temporarily or permanently settled in them. [166], In 1285 the death of the pro-Frank Mongol leader Abaqa Khan combined with the Pisan and Venetian wars with the Genoese gave the Mamluk sultan Al-Mansur Qalawun the opportunity to finally expel the Franks. whaddup Zac Leong, Crusader States were formed because the Pokemon were getting bigger and they needed room so they made states so they can kill each other. 21m video. In his absence, Sybilla's supporters led by Joscelin and Raynald took full control of Jerusalem, Acre, and Beirut. The Maronites' separate church organisation emerged under Muslim rule. Before the international campaign could get underway, though, Edessa was brutally sacked by Zangi’s successor Nur ad-Din in 1146 CE. [88] Taking advantage of Antioch's weakened position, a Cilician Armenian ruler Leo seized the Cilician plain. This style either reflected or influenced the taste of patrons of the arts in increasingly stylised Byzantine-influenced content. Later, he went further and adopted Baldwin in a power-share arrangement. The Muslim Seljuk Turks, led by Imad ad-Din Zangi, capture, At Dorylaion a force of Muslim Seljuk Turks attacks an army led by Conrad III during the, The Muslim Seljuk leader Nur al-Din captures Crusader-held, A new Church of the Holy Sepulchre is completed in, Raymond II, the Count of Tripoli, is murdered by, A small force of Crusader knights arrives in the Middle East during the, An army of the Ayyubid dynasty defeats a large Latin army at the. The level of assimilation is difficult to identify, there little material evidence. Villeins’ status differed from Western serfs as they could marry outside their lords' domain, were not obliged to perform unpaid labour, could hold land and inherit property. Relationships between Leo and Raymond-Roupen soured and Bohemond IV's supporters took advantage, restoring him in 2019. [141] News of the Franks' devastating defeat at Hattin reached Italy in September. Tancred continued as regent of Antioch and ignored the treaty. Nevertheless, almost all positions of authority - both secular and in the Church - were monopolised by the Franks, as the locals called the Crusader settlers. The English Order of St Thomas of Acre was founded for canons around 1190 and militarised in 1228. The system secured the payment of military commanders through granting them the right to collect the land tax in a well-defined territory, but it made the peasantry vulnerable to an absent lord's greed and to his officials' arbitrary actions. In this paradigm the Frankish elite is isolated from the majority population by discriminatory laws, conditions of serfdom and exclusion from positions of authority. Back from the coastal plain were mountain ranges, and most of the good agricultural land lay in a valley between them. Be the first to answer! The first Crusader state, the County of Edessa, was founded in 1098 and lasted until 1149. They all associated the region with the lives of the prophets of the Old Testament. [203] The key differentiator in status and economic position was between urban and rural dwellers. [25][26] Islamic law granted the status of dhimmi, or protected peoples, to the People of the Book, like Christians and Jews. Raynald seized another caravan, which violated the truce and prompted Saladin to assemble his forces for the jihād. [221] Workshops housed Italian, French, English and indigenous craftsmen producing illustrated manuscripts demonstrating a cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques. Thus, the County gave the Byzantines influence in the region, even under Alexios’ successors. [148], Historian Claude Cahen described the early 13th century history of northern Syria as "a lack of conflicts with the Muslims, [but] constant conflicts with the Armenians". [29], Between the late 10th and early 11th century the Byzantine Empire had been on the offensive, recapturing Antioch in 969, after three centuries of Arab rule, and invading Syria. After 1124, the Franks copied Egyptian dinars creating Jerusalem's gold bezant. [144] In October Bohemond asked Saladin for a 7-month truce, offering to surrender the city of Antioch if help did not arrive. 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