Bb5a31f81ClaimPope Urban II launched the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in November 1095AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe text and terms of the Treaty of Devol concluded between Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Bohemond of Taranto are recorded in Anna Komnene's AlexiadAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos ferried arriving Crusader forces across the Bosphorus to prevent large military concentrations outside the walls of ConstantinopleAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos halted his army's advance toward Antioch after Stephen of Blois reported that the Crusader army was facing destructionAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Gesta Francorum, an early 12th-century Latin chronicle, portrayed Bohemond of Taranto as a heroic leader while presenting Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos as untrustworthyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos raised the prospect of church union when requesting military assistance from Pope Urban IIAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos defeated Bohemond of Taranto's invading army in the western Balkans and forced Bohemond to submit to the Treaty of DevolAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos required leaders of the First Crusade to swear formal oaths of fealty making them his liegemenAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimLeaders of the First Crusade swore solemn religious oaths promising to return any conquered formerly Byzantine territories to Emperor Alexios I KomnenosAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPope Urban II assumed the papacy in 1088 while facing a rival antipope, Clement III, who was supported by the German emperor and controlled RomeAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimStephen of Blois departed the Siege of Antioch and informed Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos at Philomelion that the Crusader army was on the verge of destructionAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimNorman chronicler Orderic Vitalis recorded detailed information concerning affairs in Constantinople while writing in Normandy during the 1120sAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBohemond of Taranto refused to surrender Antioch to Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, asserting that the emperor had violated their agreement by failing to send reliefAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCount Robert I of Flanders dispatched 500 knights to Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos after meeting him on a return journey from Jerusalem in the 1080sAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPeter the Hermit led an early, disorganized contingent of peasants, women, and children toward Constantinople prior to the departure of the main Crusader armiesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn 1081, Norman leader Robert Guiscard launched an expedition across the Ionian Sea and laid siege to DyrrhachiumAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBohemond of Taranto refused to march with the main Crusader army to Jerusalem, choosing instead to remain in Antioch and establish the Norman Principality of AntiochAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn the early 1100s, Bohemond of Taranto launched a military campaign against the western flank of the Byzantine Empire at DyrrhachiumAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBohemond of Taranto is interred in a domed tomb with bronze doors in Canosa di Puglia, ItalyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBohemond of Taranto maintained the existing municipal administration in Antioch after establishing the Principality of AntiochAgreeDisagree