Xerigordos
Xerigordos (Greek: ἠ Ξερίγορδος), often incorrectly Xerigordon in modern historiography, was a castle in Anatolia (today Turkey) that served as the setting of the Siege of Xerigordos as a part of the People's Crusade in 1096. The contemporary records assert that the fortress was located on a hill[1] and its water supply came from both a water well and a spring just outside the walls. The exact location has not yet been identified. Albert of Aix wrote that it was about three miles away from Nicaea.[2]
The Greek name Xerigordos is known only from Anna Komnene's Alexiad (
References
[edit]- ^ Runciman, Steven (1 January 1994). A History of the Crusades. Folio Society.
- ^ a b Runciman, Steven. "The First Crusade: Constantinople to Antioch" (PDF). In M. W. Baldwin (ed.). A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 280–307. ISBN 9780299048341.
- ^ Conor Kostick, The Social Structure of the First Crusade (Leiden: Brill, 2008), p. 82.