After the fall of Jerusalem, there was a mass slaughter of the | The Islamic Chronicles

After the fall of Jerusalem, there was a mass slaughter of the Muslim and Jew population of the city perpetrated by the Christian Crusaders. The Fatimids were defending the city, who had previously captured it from the Seljuks in 1098.

Previously, in 1095, Pope Urban II called for a crusade in a speech during the Council of Clermont, France. As a result, the People’s Crusade led by Peter the Hermit and Walter left for the Holy Land. Made of a mob of peasant zealots, the people’s Crusade was crushed by Seljuk Sultan Kılıç Arslan I in the Battle of Civetot.

Then in April 1097, the Crusaders of the official First Crusade crossed the Bosporus into Anatolia. On 1 July 1097, the Crusaders defeated Sultan Kılıç Arslan I in the Battle of Dorylaeum and captured the Seljukid capital city of Nicaea.

From there, Crusaders moved to the Seljukid city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) and captured it on 3 June 1098. On the other side, the County of Edessa was established by Baldwin I, who had separated himself from the main army of the Crusaders, which was heading south towards Antioch and Jerusalem.

Finally, the Crusaders reached Jerusalem in June 1099 and started besieging the city on the 7th day of the month.

Read a short chronological timeline of the Crusades (main events):
https://islamicchronicles.com/islamic-history/crusades/first-crusade/siege-and-fall-of-jerusalem-7-june-15-july-1099/

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