First Crusade Defeated at Antioch

[Mister Abbadon]

The Siege of Antioch had many situations in which the First crusade could have been destroyed. What if they had been? Would there have been other Crusades later on? What would happen to the Pope who ordered the Crusade?

 

[Fabius Maximus]

The idea of crusading was actually quite a novel one at the time, and the concept's taking off to such an extent during the Middle Ages was largely due to the astonishing success of the First Crusade, which seemed to put a divine imprimatur on the crusading ideal. If the First Crusade was defeated before it reached Jerusalem, that would probably be seen as a sign of God's displeasure, and there most likely wouldn't be any more crusades for the foreseeable future.

 

[avernite]

The idea of crusading was actually quite a novel one at the time, and the concept's taking off to such an extent during the Middle Ages was largely due to the astonishing success of the First Crusade, which seemed to put a divine imprimatur on the crusading ideal. If the First Crusade was defeated before it reached Jerusalem, that would probably be seen as a sign of God's displeasure, and there most likely wouldn't be any more crusades for the foreseeable future.

Especially because similar ventures into England and Sicily had been such abysmal failu...

Wait.

I agree with you that noone would have been fool enough to try again so far from any real base, but the 'Norman' spirit hadn't been exhausted yet. Maybe there'd be more (and more succesfull?) Norman incursions into Greece or Andalusia.

 

[el t]

Antioch

Alexius Comnenus could have managed to take possession of the city, after the crusaders had reconquered it from the Turks. The population was still predominantly Greek in the 1090s.