Atlas of Battles

commander, 6 engagements

Battles of Godfrey of Bouillon

Battles of Godfrey of Bouillon

Medieval Frankish knight, 1060 to 1100

Godfrey of Bouillon is recorded as a commander at 6 placed engagements in the atlas between 1097 and 1099: 1 battle and 5 sieges across 2 present-day countries, most in Turkey (3), Israel (3). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,358 km apart end to end, 272 km between engagements on average. Most belong to First Crusade (5), Crusades (1).

First Siege of Arsuf 1099Siege of NicaeaSiege of AntiochBattle of AntiochSiege of JerusalemBattle of AscalonSiege of NicaeaSiege of AntiochBattle of AntiochSiege of JerusalemBattle of AscalonBaghdadAthensAlexandriaAnkaraTel AvivDamascusBeirutYerevanThessalonikiNicosia500 km36.050N, 32.940E
6 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1097: 2 engagements1098: 1 engagements1099: 3 engagements3 in 109910971099
6 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Nicaea, 1097Siege of Antioch, 1097Battle of Antioch, 1098Siege of Jerusalem, 1099Battle of Ascalon, 1099First Siege of Arsuf 1099, 109910971099
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
19 June 1097Siege of Nicaeaİznik, TurkeyCrusader-Byzantine victory
20 October 1097Siege of AntiochAntioch, Turkey732 km SECrusader 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...
September 1099First Siege of Arsuf 1099Arsuf, Israel63 km NFatimid 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, Maître de Fauvel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.