1098

Calendar overview 1098

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1098
The siege of Antioch ends with the capture of the city by the army of the first crusade .
1098 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	546/547 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1090/91
Buddhist calendar	1641/42 (southern Buddhism); 1640/41 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	63rd (64th) cycle Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Ox 丁丑)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	460/461 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	476/477 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	491/492 (November 27-28)
Jewish calendar	4858/59 (August 29/30)
Coptic calendar	814/815
Malayalam calendar	273/274
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1408/09 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1409/10 (New Year October)
Spanish era	1136
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1154/55 (turn of the year April)

Events

The murder of Thoros, depiction from the 13th century.

February 8 : During the First Crusade , the childless Thoros , Armenian ruler of Edessa , adopts Baldwin of Boulogne as his son and successor.
March 7th : Because of the ongoing Seljuk raids on the area around Edessa, the Armenian population revolt against Thoros. This is abandoned by his troops and locked in his palace. Baldwin does not help him, but advises him to surrender. Thoros offers to resign against safe conduct, which the insurgents refuse. Two days later, Thoros is murdered while trying to escape the palace. To what extent Baldwin is responsible for the murder is unclear.
March 10 : Baldwin of Boulogne is proclaimed the first Count of the County of Edessa and thus founds the first Crusader state .
June 3rd : The siege of Antioch ends with the conquest and sacking of the city by the army of the first crusade .
June 28th : The army of the first crusade routs its Saracen besiegers in the battle of Antioch.
December 12th : In the First Crusade , crusaders conquer the city of Maarat an-Numan, southeast of Antioch . The residents are massacred. Famine leads to cases of cannibalism .

around 1098: King Magnus III. of Norway conquered the Orkney Islands , the Hebrides and the Isle of Man .

Citeaux monastery

Dissatisfied with what he saw as the lax way of life of the Benedictines , the seventy-year-old Robert von Molesme founded a monastery community on March 21, with the support of Duke Odo I of Burgundy and around twenty other monks, including Stephan Harding , in the middle of a reed-covered wetland . who wants to return to literal observance of the Benedictine Rule . He founds the ancestral monastery of the order of the Cistercians in Cîteaux .

Spring: Wibald von Stablo , influential Benedictine abbot († 1158 )
around the summer: Hildegard von Bingen , mystic; Author of theological and medical works; Composer of sacred songs († 1179 )

Arnold II von Wied , Archbishop of Cologne († 1156 )
Konrad I. , Count of Wettin, Margrave of Meißen and Lausitz, participant in the Wendenkreuzzug († 1157 )
Pons , Count of Tripoli († 1137 )

Adhemar de Monteil

August 1st : Adhemar de Monteil , Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay, a key figure in the First Crusade
November 22nd : Domnall Ua hÉnna , Bishop of Munster and founder of the reform movement in the Irish Church

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