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The 42 pages that link to First Crusade, each with the reason it gives.

• CrusadesBroader topic: It achieved the movement's initial objective and established the first crusader states.

• Crusader statesNarrower topic: Its conquests created the first enduring Latin polities in the region.

• Alexios I KomnenosRelated: Alexios’s appeal for western military aid helped trigger the expedition, whose arrival he then managed.

• Kingdom of JerusalemNarrower topic: Its conquest created the conditions for a Latin kingdom in the Levant.

• IndulgenceRelated: Crusade preaching helped expand the use of indulgences tied to specific acts.

• Knights HospitallerRelated: Its capture of Jerusalem created the setting in which the hospital community developed.

• Anna KomneneRelated: Its passage through Byzantine territory is a major episode in Anna’s account.

• Bohemond I of AntiochNarrower topic: The campaign created the circumstances for Bohemond’s conquest and rule in Antioch.

• Pope Urban IIBroader topic: This was the campaign Urban’s call set in motion.

• Siege of Jerusalem (1099)Narrower topic: Its surviving forces reached Jerusalem after campaigning across the eastern Mediterranean.

• Council of ClermontBroader topic: It was the expedition set in motion by the council’s call.

• Second CrusadeCompared with: Unlike its predecessor, the Second Crusade achieved no lasting territorial conquest.

• Knights TemplarNarrower topic: Its conquest created the political setting in which the Templars were founded.

• Principality of AntiochNarrower topic: Its armies besieged and seized Antioch, creating the principality.

• Siege of AntiochNarrower topic: Antioch was the expedition’s longest and most consequential siege before Jerusalem.

• Sultanate of RumRelated: Crusader forces crossed Seljuk territory and helped force the court away from Nicaea.

• Treaty of DevolNarrower topic: The Crusade created the political circumstances behind Byzantine claims to Antioch.

• KnightRelated: Crusading connected knightly warfare with religious vows and campaigns abroad.

• Fulcher of ChartresRelated: Fulcher accompanied this expedition and chronicled its progress.

• County of EdessaNarrower topic: Its advance into northern Mesopotamia created the circumstances for Edessa's foundation.

• Malik-Shah IRelated: It began soon after Malik-Shah’s death, amid political fragmentation among Seljuk powers.

• Baldwin I of JerusalemNarrower topic: Its conquest created the political opening Baldwin later turned into a kingdom.

• Siege of NicaeaNarrower topic: The siege was the crusade’s first major military success in Asia Minor.

• AlexiadBroader topic: Anna recounts the crusaders’ arrival and their complicated relations with Alexios.

• Raymond IV of ToulouseNarrower topic: Raymond was among its wealthiest and most influential commanders.

• Komnenian dynastyRelated: Alexios I’s appeal for military aid helped set the Crusade in motion, then complicated Byzantine diplomacy.

• People's CrusadeNarrower topic: The People's Crusade was an early, separate movement within the wider events of 1096.

• Philip I of FranceRelated: Philip’s brother Hugh took part, though the king himself did not join the expedition.

• Aragonese CrusadeCompared with: Its distant eastern target contrasts with the Aragonese campaign against a neighboring Christian kingdom.

• Battle of HarranNarrower topic: Its conquests created the frontier states whose rivalry with nearby powers shaped the campaign.

• High Middle AgesBroader topic: It initiated sustained Latin Christian campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean.

• Pope Paschal IIRelated: Paschal inherited the crusade launched by his predecessor and supported its continuation.

• Torquato TassoRelated: The campaign supplies the historical setting for Tasso’s epic narrative.

• Al-Hakim bi-Amr AllahRelated: Later accounts connected al-Hakim’s destruction order to the political and religious tensions preceding the crusades.

• Jerusalem DeliveredNarrower topic: The poem turns this campaign and its siege of Jerusalem into epic action.

• Crusade of 1101Narrower topic: The 1101 armies followed its success and aimed to strengthen its new eastern settlements.

• Kilij Arslan INarrower topic: Its passage through Anatolia defined the best-known military challenge of Kilij Arslan's reign.

• Peter the HermitNarrower topic: Peter’s preaching and expedition formed an early, distinct part of this larger campaign.

• William IX of AquitaineRelated: Its success preceded William IX’s own, less successful expedition eastward.

• Battle of AscalonNarrower topic: The battle was the crusading army’s final major engagement during the expedition.

• Battle of the Field of BloodNarrower topic: Its conquest of Antioch created the principality whose army fought at Sarmada.

• Gerard SassoRelated: The conquest of Jerusalem created the setting in which Gerard’s hospital community developed.