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Updated: June 27, 2025
This Duke had already reached the camp, after beating off the Seljuk skirmishers who had harassed his retreat and driven in the first fright-struck Germans.
In 1085 the Eastern Emperor Alexius had appealed to Henry against the Normans, but now Henry was a negligible quantity excommunicated, crowned Emperor by an anti-pope, not likely to undertake a distant expedition. In 1095, therefore, when Alexius needed aid against the Seljuk Turks, it was to the Pope that he sent his envoys, who appeared at the Synod of Piacenza.
The Seljuk Turks who, in 1291, had conquered Acre, the last European stronghold in the Holy Land, had lost their power; but a new family of the Turkish race, the one that dwells in Europe to-day, the Osmanlis, had built up an empire by conquest over their fellows, and had begun to wrest province after province from the feeble Empire of the East.
A number of arrows were successively inscribed with the name of a tribe, a family, and a candidate; they were drawn from the bundle by the hand of a child; and the important prize was obtained by Togrul Beg, the son of Michael the son of Seljuk, whose surname was immortalized in the greatness of his posterity.
The squire who was guarding the dead told her how, very early in the morning, some fifty Seljuk horsemen had come down from the hills and had shot arrows at Gilbert and his men from a distance, wheeling quickly and galloping away out of sight before the Christians could mount; and this one knight had been killed, and his squire had stayed by him till the army should come up, while the rest rode on, and took both the horses with them in case they should lose any of their own.
They challenged the Romaic Empire's progress in Armenia, and in A.D. 1071 five years after the Norman founded at Hastings the strong government which has been the making of England the Seljuk Turk shattered at the battle of Melasgerd that heritage of strong government which had promised so much to Greece. Melasgerd opened the way to Anatolia.
Part I. The Turks Of The House Of Seljuk. Their Revolt Against Mahmud Conqueror Of Hindostan. Togrul Subdues Persia, And Protects The Caliphs. Defeat And Captivity Of The Emperor Romanus Diogenes By Alp Arslan. Power And Magnificence Of Malek Shah. Conquest Of Asia Minor And Syria. State And Oppression Of Jerusalem. Pilgrimages To The Holy Sepulchre.
Turkish nomads from the central Asiatic steppes had been drifting into the Moslem world as the vigour of the Arabs waned. First they came as slaves, then as mercenaries, until at last, in the eleventh century, the clan of Seljuk grasped with a strong hand the political dominion of Islam. As champions of the caliph the Turkish sultans disputed the infidels encroachment on the Moslem border.
Zengi, a powerful Seljuk Atabeg, in 1144 captured Edessa, the outpost of Christendom, and the Second Crusade, led by the Emperor Conrad of Germany and by King Louis VII of France, failed to effect the recapture of the fortress.
'Tis a single drop of light, yet who even of thy wild band can look upon it without awe? And yet thou worse than Sisera, thou comest to combat against those for whom even "the stars in their courses fought." 'A Jewish witch! exclaimed the Seljuk. 'A Jewish witch! Be it so; behold, then, my spell falls upon thee, and that spell is Destruction.
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