The supposed Holy Spear was unearthed from the floor of a Church during the Siege of Antioch ( 1098 ) by crusaders on the First Crusade, found by a poor and otherwise unknown monk named Peter Bartholomew.

* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city.

Capua was again put under Norman rule after the Siege of Capua of 1098 and the city quickly declined in importance under a series of ineffectual Norman rulers.

In 1098, after a meeting at the Siege of Capua, Urban II bestowed extraordinary prerogatives on Roger, some of the very same rights that were being withheld from temporal sovereigns elsewhere in Europe.

* 1098: Pope Urban II makes an appearance at the Siege of Capua

During the June 1098 Siege of Antioch, a poor monk Peter Bartholomew reported that he had a vision in which St. Andrew told him that the Holy Lance was buried in the Church of St Peter in Antioch.

Some of these people were already scorned at home and faced enormous pressure to return to the east ; Adela of Blois, wife of Stephen, Count of Blois, who had fled from the Siege of Antioch in 1098, was so ashamed of her husband that she would not permit him to stay at home.

However, after the Siege of Antioch in 1098, Bohemund refused to submit Antioch to Byzantine rule and set himself up as Prince of Antioch.

The Siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098.

* In the Siege of Antioch ( 1097 – 1098 ), soldiers of the First Crusade took the city and were besieged in turn.

: The " Siege of Antioch " may also refer to two battles in 1097 and 1098 during the First Crusade ; see Siege of Antioch.

** Siege of Ma ' arrat al-Numan in 1098 during the First Crusade

To the north were the three other crusader states founded during and after the First Crusade, the County of Edessa ( 1097 – 1144 ), the Principality of Antioch ( 1098 – 1268 ), and the County of Tripoli ( 1109 – 1289 ), which were all independent but closely tied to Jerusalem.

He returned home in 1098 during the lengthy siege of Antioch, without having fulfilled his crusading vow to forge a way to Jerusalem.

In 1098 Godfrey took part in the capture of Antioch, which fell in June of that year after long and bitter fighting.

He appears, in the beginning of 1098, as attempting to escape from the privations of the siege of Antioch -- showing himself, as Guibert of Nogent says, a " fallen star.

He marched from Ma ' arrat, which had been captured in December 1098, into the emirate of Tripoli, and began the siege of Arqa on 14 February 1099, apparently with the intent of founding an independent territory in Tripoli that could limit the power of Bohemond to expand the Principality of Antioch to the south.

Capture of Antioch by Bohemond of Tarente in June 1098.

The capture of Antioch was due to his connection with Firouz, one of the commanders in the city ; but he would not bring matters to an issue until the possession of the city was assured him ( May 1098 ), under the terror of the approach of Kerbogha with a great army of relief, and with a reservation in favour of Alexius, if Alexius should fulfill his promise to aid the crusaders.

In 1098, when he heard that the Crusaders had besieged Antioch, he gathered his troops and marched to relieve the city.

In 1098, Baldwin of Boulogne left the main Crusading army, which was travelling south towards Antioch and Jerusalem, and went first south into Cilicia, then east to Edessa.

* The Principality of Antioch, founded in 1098, lasted until 1268.

* List of Latin Patriarchs of Antioch 1098 – 1964

After the Crusaders had successfully made their way across Seljuk territory and, in 1098, captured Antioch, Hugh was sent back to Constantinople to appeal for reinforcements from Alexius.

In February 1098, the emir Baldoukh ( Bulduk ) of the Turkish Artukid or Ortoqid ( Artuklu ) dynasty, attacked by Baudouin of Antioch, cut his army to pieces there.

Seljuk rule lasted 14 years until Hatay's capture by the Crusaders in 1098, when it became the centre of the Principality of Antioch.

The Genoese fleet transported and provided naval support to the crusaders, mainly during the siege of Antioch in 1098, when the Genoese fleet blockaded the city while the troops provided support during the siege.

After the capture of Antioch on May 3, 1098, Genoa forged an alliance with Bohemond of Taranto, who became the ruler of the Principality of Antioch.

In 1098 he was sent back to Constantinople with Hugh of Vermandois after the siege of Antioch, to seek assistance from Byzantine emperor Alexius I.

In 1098, when Antioch had been captured after a long siege and the Crusaders were in turn themselves besieged in the city, Alexios marched out to meet them, but, hearing from Stephen of Blois that the situation was hopeless, he returned to Constantinople.

Adela filled in as regent for her husband's duties during his extended absence as a leader of the First Crusade ( 1095 – 1098 ).

Duqaq later joined Kerbogha of Mosul to attack the crusaders after they had occupied Antioch in June 1098, but during the battle, Duqaq's line deserted and Kerbogha was defeated.

The area was recaptured by the Byzantines in 1098 during the Crusades and later following the sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade of 1204, the Byzantine Imperial family itself removed to nearby Trabzon establishing the Empire of Trebizond, of which Rize was part.

A Benedictine monk and chronicler, he made updates to the World Chronicle ( Chronicon universale ) of Frutolf of Michelsberg adding important German history between 1098 and 1125 during the reign of Emperor Henry V, in which he sided strongly with the papacy in the Investiture Controversy.

The Hebrides and the Isle of Man had become Norwegian territory during centuries when both Scotland and Norway were still forming themselves as coherent nation-states, and Norwegian control had been formalised in 1098, when Edgar of Scotland signed the islands over to Magnus III of Norway.

In 1098, during the First Crusade, it was recovered by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I.

Yaghi-Siyan ( died June 3, 1098 ) was the governor of Antioch during the First Crusade.

The most infamous event from the city's history dates from late 1098, during the First Crusade.

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

* 1098 – First Crusade: Massacre of Ma ' arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20, 000 inhabitants.

: Exploiting the departure of Raimond for the First Crusade and troubles in the county, the powerful husband of Felipa reclaims Toulouse for her in 1098.

In 1098 Alan IV joined the First Crusade, leaving Brittany under the regency of his wife Ermengarde of Anjou.

He was the eldest son of Raymond IV of Toulouse, and had ruled Toulouse since Raymond left on the First Crusade in 1095-although, between 1098 and 1100, he was dispossessed by his cousin Philippa and her husband Duke William IX of Aquitaine, who marched into Toulouse and captured it, before mortgaging it back to Bertrand in 1100 to fund Duke William's expedition to the Holy Land.

After the First Crusade in 1098, Genoa gained settlements in Syria.

On May 6, 1098 a part of the Genoese army returned to Genoa with the relics of Saint John the Baptist, which were given to the Republic of Genoa as part of their reward for providing military support to the First Crusade.

In 1098 Alan went on the First Crusade, leaving Ermengarde as his regent, and returned in 1101.

The Prince of Antioch ruled the Principality of Antioch of the Crusader States, founded by Christian princes in 1098 when the First Crusade took the city ; it disappeared with the departure of the last crusader of in 1268.

The first extensive Jewish emigration from Western Europe to Poland occurred at the time of the First Crusade ( 1098 ).

Albenga established itself as a commune in 1098 ; in that same year it took part to the First Crusade with vessels, men and money, receiving rights of free trade by the King of Jerusalem.