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1149 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1149
MCXLIX
Ab urbe condita 1902
Armenian calendar 598
ԹՎ ՇՂԸ
Assyrian calendar 5899
Balinese saka calendar 1070–1071
Bengali calendar 556
Berber calendar 2099
English Regnal year 14  Ste. 1   15  Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar 1693
Burmese calendar 511
Byzantine calendar 6657–6658
Chinese calendar 戊辰年 (Earth  Dragon)
3846 or 3639
     to 
己巳年 (Earth  Snake)
3847 or 3640
Coptic calendar 865–866
Discordian calendar 2315
Ethiopian calendar 1141–1142
Hebrew calendar 4909–4910
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1205–1206
 - Shaka Samvat 1070–1071
 - Kali Yuga 4249–4250
Holocene calendar 11149
Igbo calendar 149–150
Iranian calendar 527–528
Islamic calendar 543–544
Japanese calendar Kyūan 5
(久安5年)
Javanese calendar 1055–1056
Julian calendar 1149
MCXLIX
Korean calendar 3482
Minguo calendar 763 before ROC
民前763年
Nanakshahi calendar −319
Seleucid era 1460/1461 AG
Thai solar calendar 1691–1692
Tibetan calendar 阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1275 or 894 or 122
     to 
阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1276 or 895 or 123
The Battle of Inab (or Ard al-Hatim) BattleOfInab.jpg
The Battle of Inab (or Ard al-Hatim)

Year 1149 ( MCXLIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Levant

  • Spring Nur al-Din, Seljuk ruler ( atabeg ) of Aleppo, invades the Principality of Antioch and defeats the Crusaders under Raymond of Poitiers at Baghras. He moves southward to besiege the fortress of Inab, one of the few strongholds of the Crusaders east of the Orontes River. Raymond with a small army (supported by the Assassin allies under Ali ibn Wafa) hurries to its rescue. Nur al-Din, misinformed of the strength of the Crusader forces, retreats. In fact the Zangid forces (some 6,000 men) outnumber the Crusaders by over four to one. Against Ali's advice Raymond decides to reinforce the garrison of Inab. [2]
  • April King Louis VII and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine sail homeward in separate Sicilian ships. While the fleet rounds the Peloponnese (southern Greece) it is attacked by ships of the Byzantine navy. Louis gives orders to raise the French flag and is allowed to sail on. But the ships containing many of his followers and his possessions are captured and taken as a war-prize to Constantinople. [3]
  • June 29 Battle of Inab: The Zangid army under Nur al-Din defeats the combined army of Raymond of Poitiers and the Assassins of Ali ibn Wafa at Inab. After the battle, Nur al-Din invades Antiochene territory and captures the fortresses of Artah and Harim. He then turns west to appear before the walls of Antioch itself and raids as far as St. Symeon. [4]
  • July King Baldwin III receives an urgent request for help from Antioch to break the incomplete Zangid blockade of the city. Meanwhile, the Crusaders fail to retake Harim. [5] Nur al-Din strengthens his siege of Antioch, but it is too large to surround. A truce is agreed under which Harim and farther east territory remains under Seljuk dominance.
  • July 15 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is consecrated, after reconstruction.

Europe

Britain

By topic

Commerce

  • Genoa grants the benefits of a part of the city's fiscal revenues to a consortium of creditors called compera, the first example of the consolidation of public debt in medieval Europe. [7]

Religion

  • April 8 Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Tusculum where he meets Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He attempts to reunite the couple by insisting to restore the love between them. [8]

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Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī, commonly known as Nur ad-Din, was a member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire. He reigned from 1146 to 1174. He is regarded as an important figure of the Second Crusade.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bohemond III of Antioch</span> Prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201

Bohemond III of Antioch, also known as Bohemond the Child or the Stammerer, was Prince of Antioch from 1163 to 1201. He was the elder son of Constance of Antioch and her first husband, Raymond of Poitiers. Bohemond ascended to the throne after the Antiochene noblemen dethroned his mother with the assistance of the lord of Armenian Cilicia, Thoros II. He fell into captivity in the Battle of Harim in 1164, but the victorious Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo released him to avoid coming into conflict with the Byzantine Empire. Bohemond went to Constantinople to pay homage to Manuel I Komnenos, who persuaded him to install a Greek Orthodox patriarch in Antioch. The Latin patriarch of Antioch, Aimery of Limoges, placed Antioch under interdict. Bohemond restored Aimery only after the Greek patriarch died during an earthquake in 1170.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Battle of Inab</span> 1149 battle during the Second Crusade in modern-day Syria

The Battle of Inab, also called Battle of Ard al-Hâtim or Fons Muratus, was fought on 29 June 1149, during the Second Crusade. The Zengid army of Atabeg Nur ad-Din Zangi destroyed the combined army of Prince Raymond of Poitiers and the Assassins of Ali ibn-Wafa. The Principality of Antioch was subsequently pillaged and reduced in size as its eastern border was pushed west.

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The Battle of Harim (Harenc) was fought on 12 August 1164 at Harim, Syria, between the forces of Nur ad-Din, and a combined army from the County of Tripoli, the Principality of Antioch, the Byzantine Empire, and Armenia. Nur ad-Din won a crushing victory, capturing most of the leaders of the opposing army.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harem, Syria</span> City in Idlib, Syria

Harem or Harim, is a Syrian city within the Idlib Governorate. It has an altitude of 160 meters and a population of 21,934. Harem is situated on the border with Turkey, 55 km west of Aleppo.

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