Sven the crusader
Sven Svensøn , called the Crusader , ( Danish Svend Korsfarer ; * around 1050 in Denmark , † 1097 in Asia Minor ) was a Danish prince and participant in the First Crusade .
He was a son of the Danish King Sven Estridsson . He was engaged to Florine of Burgundy , daughter of Duke Odo I of Burgundy .
Together with his fiancé he went on the First Crusade. When they arrived in Constantinople in 1097 with their contingent, which consisted of two unknown bishops and allegedly 1,500 men , the main army of the crusade had already marched on. So they followed alone to Asia Minor and were attacked while crossing the plains of Cappadocia , possibly at Philomelion , by a numerically superior force of the Rum Seljuks . Sven and Florine were killed in the fighting.
See also
literature
- Dominik Waßenhoven: Scandinavians on the road in Europe (1000-1250). Studies on mobility and cultural transfer on a prosopographical basis . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004285-0 (Zugl .: Diss. Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2005), pp. 279f.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sven the crusader |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sven Svensøn; Sven from Denmark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish prince and crusader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1081 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1097 |
| Place of death | unsure: Philomelion |