
	Where results make sense

Topic: Countship of Edessa

Related Topics

Countship of Edessa

Countship of Tripoli

Joscelin I of Edessa

Joscelin II of Edessa

Battle of Edessa

Countship of Edessa

siege of Edessa

Baldwin I of Edessa

In the News (Fri 1 Jun 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Edessa, Countship of
		Its demise is linked to Edessa being without coast and surrounded only by Muslim-ruled states, the Seljuqs to the north and Zangids to the south, with whom Edessa never managed to form stable relations.
		— Edessa is attacked by the rulers of Mosul, and at the Battle of Harran, and Baldwin 2 is taken prisoner.
		1144: Edessa is besieged by Zengi, the ruler of Aleppo and Mosul.
	i-cias.com /e.o/edessa_crusades.htm (445 words)

	[No title]
		Although the beginnings of Christianity at Edessa are enshrouded in the mists of legend, and the first mention of Christian communities in Osrhoene and the towns there is connected with the part they played in the paschal controversy (c.
		It was at Edessa that Caracalla, who made it a military colony under the style of Colonia Marcia Edessenorum, spent the winter of 216–217, and near there that he was murdered.
		A few years later Jacob Baradaeus, with Edessa as centre of his bishopric, was carrying on the propaganda of Monophysitism which won for the adherents of that creed the name of Jacobites (q.v.).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=22203 (3962 words)

	Count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the start the count was in military charge, not of a roving warband, but settled in a locality, a countship, his main rival for power being the bishop, whose diocese was often coterminous.
		In many Germanic and Frankish kingdoms in the early Middle Ages, the count might also be a count palatine, whose authority derived directly from the royal household, the "palace" in its original sense of the seat of power and administration.
		Later other countships (and duchies, even baronies) have been raised to this French peerage, but mostly as apanages (for members of the royal house) or for foreigners; after the 16th century all new peerages were always duchies and the medieval countship-peerages had died out, or were held by royal princes
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Count (1504 words)

	Mesopotamia - LoveToKnow 1911
		It has not yet been proved that Edessa is an ancient city (see Edessa: § 2) but it probably was, and its neighbour Harran, the tower of which can be seen from it, bears a name which seems to indicate its position as a highway centre.
		In consequence of the revolt of Zenobia Mesopotamia was lost to Rome, and the Euphrates became the frontier.
		The peace begun by Chosroes I. (532) was not long kept, and Roman Mesopotamia, except the pagan Harran, suffered severely (540), Edessa undergoing a trying siege (544) The fifty years' peace also (562) was short lived; the Romans again failed in an attempt to recover Nisibis (573), whilst Chosroes' siege of Dara was successful.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mesopotamia (9808 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
		Besides, the Countship of Tripoli and the Principality of Edessa became fiefs of the new kingdom, but the Principality of
		His cousin, Baldwin du Bourg, Count of Edessa, was chosen by the barons to succeed him.
		In the north the Countship of Tripoli was under the suzerainty of the King of Jerusalem.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08361a.htm (3155 words)

	EDESSA - Online Information article about EDESSA
		Crassus, Edessa was an ally of Rome, though Abgar II.
		Christianity at Edessa are enshrouded in the mists of legend, and the first mention of Christian communities in Osrhoene and the towns there is connected with the part they played in the See also:
		Jacob Baradaeus, with Edessa as centre of his bishopric, was carrying on the propaganda of Monophysitism which won for the adherents of that creed the name of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ECG_EMS/EDESSA.html (4802 words)

	The Crusades 101 \| Jimmy Akin \| IgnatiusInsight.com
		In the wake of the First Crusade there developed four Christian states from the territory the crusaders had recovered: the later Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch, the Countship of Edessa, and the Countship of Tripoli.
		However, the states remained vulnerable, and in 1144 the northern state of Edessa was captured by Muslim forces.
		The failure of the Second Crusade was severely discouraging, and many in Europe became convinced that the Byzantine Empire was an obstacle to the success of the venture.
	www.ignatiusinsight.com /features2006/jakin_crusades_sept06.asp (4417 words)

	Tyre
		Baldwin II captured it, 27 June, 1124, after five months' siege and made it the seat of a countship.
		When the crusaders lost the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 by the defeat of Tiberias, Tyre remained in the hands of the Franks and became one of their chief fortresses.
		Another council was held in February, 449, to examine the cause of Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, who was accused by the clerics of his church and absolved by this council.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tyre.html (2786 words)

	History of the Counts of Harnes
		Their father, Eustace II, was an ally of the Duke of Normandy, and he followed William the Conqueror on the invasion of England in 1066.
		It is probable that either the King of France or the Constable of France forced John to renounce the countship after John fought on the side of the King of England during a conflict between England and France.
		The countship remained unfilled until sometime shortly before 1536 when the King of France, Francis I, revived the it during a war with Spain in order to protect his interests in the area.
	members.aol.com /mikesclark/genealogy/counts.html (4344 words)

	Jerusalem
		Cousin of Baldwin I; took part in First Crusade (1096-99); named by Baldwin I count of Edessa (1100-18); captured by Turks on way to aid Edessa (1123); released (1124); left his kingdom greatly enlarged to his son-in-law Fulk V of Anjou.
		A Christian kingdom of Jerusalem was established, with Godfrey as its first king, his brother Baldwin as Count of Edessa (Upper Mesopotamia), and Bohemund as Prince of Antioch.
		Edessa was lost in 1144, and the Second Crusade (1146-48), under Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, ended disastrously.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/jerusalem.htm (2263 words)

	Marash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A patriarch resided here under Alexis Comnenus, shortly after which the country fell into the hands of the Armenian Princes.
		It then passed into the power of the Crusaders, who established there a countship dependent on that of Edessa.
		The Seljuks captured it in 1155, and after various changes of masters it belonged from the sixteenth century to the Osmanli Turks.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/marash.html (247 words)

	[No title]
		Close to this ancient kingdom were growing up likewise, in the two chief cities of Syria and Mesopotamia, Antioch and Edessa, two Christian principalities, in the possession of two crusader-chiefs, Bohemond and Baldwin.
		Soon afterwards it became known in the West that the affairs of the Christians were going ill in the East; that the town of Edessa had been re-taken by the Turks, and all its inhabitants massacred.
		The fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem meant the sepulchre of Jesus Christ fallen once more into the hands of the infidels, and, at the same time, the destruction of what had been wrought by Christian Europe in the East, the loss of the only striking and permanent gage of her victories.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/1/9/5/11952/11952.txt (13086 words)

	[No title]
		The caliphate's authority was purely notional: Egypt was under the rule of the Fatimids, a Shi'ite sect, while the Sunni Turks from central Asia were gaining the upper hand in Shi'ite Persia, as well as Iraq, Syria, and Palestine.
		By the beginning of the "Glorious Twelfth," the Christian states-the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Countship of Tripoli, the Principality of Antioch, and the Countship of Edessa-controlled an unbroken but tenuously held belt of territory roughly corresponding to the Fertile Crescent between the Euphrates and the Sinai.
		The Principality of Edessa was the first to succumb to the Muslim counteroffensive on Christmas Day 1144, and Damascus fell in 1154.
	www.pogledi.co.yu /english/143.php (2969 words)

	[No title]
		• His cousin, Baldwin du Bourg, Count of Edessa, was chosen by the barons to succeed him.
		In 1129 he married his daughter Melisende to Fulc, Count of Anjou, who was the father of Geoffrey Plantagenet and already sixty years of age.
		But in the very interior of the kingdom the power of the king was checked by numerous obstacles, and the sovereignty belonged less to the king than to the body of feudatories whose power was centered in the High Court, composed of vassals and rear-vassals.
	www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/08361A.TXT (3079 words)

	An Unsealed Room: We Interrupt the War on Terror to Bring You "The Sopranos"
		Godefroy de Bouillon, elected Lord of Jerusalem in 1099, did not assume the royal crown (which was assumed provisionally by the King of France) and died in 1100, having strengthened the new conquest by his victory over the Egyptians at Ascalon (1099).
		His cousin, Baudoin du Bourg, Count of Edessa, was chosen by the barons to succeed him.
		Baudoin II (1118-1131), who had followed Godefroy de Bouillon to the crusade, was a valiant knight and, in 1124, took possession of Tyre.
	allisonkaplansommer.blogmosis.com /history/019033.html (3915 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)