Atlas of Battles

commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn

Battles of Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn

noble from Béarn, Gascony (1074-1130)

Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1097 and 1130: 2 battles and 4 sieges across 3 present-day countries, most in Turkey (2), Israel (2), Spain (2). Taken in date order, the sites lie 4,132 km apart end to end, 826 km between engagements on average. Most belong to First Crusade (4), Almoravid conquest of al-Andalus (1).

Battle of ValenciaSiege of AntiochBattle of AntiochSiege of JerusalemBattle of AscalonConquest of ZaragozaSiege of AntiochSiege of JerusalemBattle of AscalonConquest of ZaragozaAthensGenevaAnkaraAlgiersMilanDamascusNaplesTripoliBucharestTunis1000 km36.660N, 17.639E
6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1097: 1 engagements1098: 1 engagements1099: 2 engagements2 in 10991118: 1 engagements1130: 1 engagements10971130
6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Antioch, 1097Battle of Antioch, 1098Siege of Jerusalem, 1099Battle of Ascalon, 1099Conquest of Zaragoza, 1118Battle of Valencia, 113010971130
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
20 October 1097Siege of AntiochAntioch, TurkeyCrusader victory
1098Battle of AntiochAntioch, Turkey1 km WCrusader victory
7 June 1099Siege of JerusalemJerusalem, Israel499 km SCrusader victory
12 August 1099Battle of AscalonAshkelon, Israel64 km WCrusader victory; Fatimid army routed to Egypt; End of the...
April 1118Conquest of ZaragozaZaragoza, Spain3,323 km NWChristian victory
1130Battle of ValenciaValencia, Spain246 km SAlmoravid victory

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, Alexandre Lacauchie, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.