commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Baldwin III of Jerusalem

King of Jerusalem (1130-1163) (r. 1143-1163)

Baldwin III of Jerusalem is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1147 and 1157: 2 battles and 3 sieges across 3 present-day countries, most in Syria (3), Turkey (1), Egypt (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,615 km apart end to end, 404 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Crusades (3), Second Crusade (2).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Crusades 3
Second Crusade 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1147	Battle of Bosra	Bosra, Syria		Inconclusive
28 July 1148	Siege of Damascus	Damascus, Syria	112 km N	Muslim victory
1150	Battle of Aintab	Gaziantep, Turkey	407 km N	Crusader victory
1153	Siege of Ascalon	Ashkelon, Egypt	654 km SW	Crusader victory
October 1157	Siege of Shaizar	Shaizar, Syria	442 km NE	Siege abandoned; Zengids seize Shaizar back from the...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.