Battle of Harran
Battle opposing Moslem and crossed in 1104.
In spring 1104, a common operation of the Francs of Antioche and Edesse is committed against the fortified town of Harran which controls the relations between the Iraq and the Syria of North. The city is with fire and blood after the assassination of the governor by one of his officers during a drinking bout.
Jekermish, the new Master of Mosul, and its neighbor Sokman, former governor of Jerusalem, then in war one against the other, link their forces to save Harran. They go on the city, Sokman with 7000 riders Turkmènes and Jekermish with 3000. They meet the Francs close to the Balikh river. After having made mine flee, they make volte-face and cut them in parts. Bohémond de Tarente and Tancrède manages to flee of accuracy. Baudouin II of Edesse is made prisoner by Sokman, then is taken with this last by Jekermish, jealous. Sokman, equipping its men with clothing with the frank riders, manages by the trick to take several fortresses. Following its defeat, Bohémond will leave the Holy Land later a few months. Sokman and Jekermish, rather than to concentrate their forces towards Edesse, separate on their argument. Jekermish is surprised by Tancrède which succeeds in capturing several people of its continuation, of which a young princess of a rare beauty, that Tancrède rather returns to him against 15.000 dinars out of gold than Baudouin II of Edesse, which remains prisoner in Mosul.
After the battle of Harran, the cadi of Tripoli Fakhr el-Moulk request in Sokman to intervene in Tripoli against the Francs (June 1104). Sokman goes towards Syria, but embanked by an angina, it gives up.
Fakhr el-Moulk attacks the citadel of the “Qalaat Saint-Gilles”. Several frank warriors are massacred and a wing of the fortress is burnt (September). Raymond of Saint-Gilles itself is seriously flaring. He dies five months later and is replaced by the count of Cerdagne. In its anguish, he asks to see the emissary of Fakhr el-Moulk and a market proposes to them: if Tripolitains cease attacking the citadel, the Francs will begin not to more obstruct the traffic of the travellers and the goods. The cadi accepts.
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