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
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
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
Bb5a31f81ClaimNorman chronicler Orderic Vitalis recorded detailed information concerning affairs in Constantinople while writing in Normandy during the 1120sAgreeDisagree
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
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Alexiad was composed in Greek by Anna Komnene during the late 1140s and early 1150sAgreeDisagree
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
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
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn 1071, Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes fought a Turkish force under Seljuk leader Alp Arslan at the Battle of ManzikertAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimNorman leader Robert Guiscard died in 1085 during military operations against the Byzantine EmpireAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBohemond of Taranto married Constance, the daughter of the King of France, following his return to Western Europe in the early 12th centuryAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe city of Antioch was held by the Byzantine Empire until Turkish forces captured it in the 1080sAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimHistorian Edward Gibbon wrote that Anna Komnene's Alexiad displays the vanity of a female author on every pageAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Battle of Manzikert is commemorated annually in Turkey as a foundational moment of the Turkish stateAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBohemond of Taranto was captured and held for ransom by Turkish forces in the early 1100sAgreeDisagree