At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Sides
Commanders: Kerbogha, lord of Mosul
Summary
In 491 AH the Franks set out with a great army, besieged Antioch for seven months, and took it by storm 1.
After Antioch
The Muslims came out against them and were defeated. The Franks pursued them to al-Ma'arra, where they killed and ravaged, and they stayed there and killed 100,000 Muslims. Forty days later they marched on Homs, whose people made peace with them, and then they turned towards Jerusalem 1.
Context
This battle was the first link in the great Frankish movement, which in the following year led to the capture of Jerusalem 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Antioch
People and things also explored
The earthquake of Antioch and Latakia· Byzantine capture of Antioch· The Conquest of Antioch· al-Jurjuma· Qinnasrin· Antioch
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 396
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Franks Take Antioch and the Massacre at Ma'arra, 491”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/franks-antioch-491/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.