Odo of Deuil’s (“doy’s”) account of one of these events claims that its participants got spooked by a snake charmer and started a riot in the city of Philippopolis. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these events whose “land route” traversed the Balkans on Roman roads like the Via Egnatia. In the first of these events, Godfrey of Bouillon took the “diagonal” Via Militaris to meet with Alexius I Comnenus.
ANSWER: crusades [or croisades; accept crusading movement or croiserie; prompt on holy wars, iter, or peregrinatio]
[10m] In exchange for letting a crusader army travel through his lands, this king took Godfrey’s brother Baldwin hostage. This scholarly king unified his kingdom with Croatia via the Pacta conventa.
ANSWER: Coloman, King of Hungary [or Coloman the Learned, the Book-Lover, or the Bookish; or Könyves Kálmán]
[10h] The untrained Lombards that fought in this campaign were escorted across the Balkans, only to break into Alexius’s palace at Blachernae and kill his pet lion. Kilij Arslan I destroyed William of Aquitaine’s army during this successor to the First Crusade.
ANSWER: Crusade of the Faint-Hearted [or Crusade of 1101]
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