Խաչակիր Առաջին Արշաւանքները Կիլիկիոյ Մէջ Եւ Եդեսիոյ Լատին Կոմսութեան Հիմնադրութիւնը
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1973
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Tancred and Baldwin, separating from the main armies of the First Crusades at the Cilician Gates, march southwards. In separate battles, the first succeeds in occupying Adana, Msis, and Alexandriak; while the other takes Tarsus. Then, they hasten together to Marash, where the main crusading armies were stationed. Following the advice of Bagrat (the brother of the Armenian prince Basil the Thief of Kessoun), who accompanied him in Constantinople, Baldwin marches northward at the head of a regiment to try his luck. After occupying Ravenda and Telbashir with the military help of Armenians, Baldwin is asked to help Toros the Armenian prince of Edessa, in protecting the city against the Turks. Baldwin however, refuses to serve as a hireling. Thereupon, Toros, already advanced in age and heirless, decides to adopt him and appoint him successor to the rule after his demise. But soon Baldwin takes part in a plot against Toros and allows the rebels to kill him. On march 10, 1098, the first Latin rule is-established in Edessa. Baldwin, whose wife died in Marash, marries Arda, daughter of Toros, the brother of the Roupinian prince Constantine of Cilicia. Considerably emboldened by Baldwin's successes in Edessa, a good number of Crusaders encamped around Antioch come to Edessa to join him. Confiding in the Latins found in Edessa, Baldwin disregards the native Armenians, who, suspicious of his dark designs of wresting their possessions, plot against him. But the furtive scheme is disclosed, and Baldwin plucks out the eyes of the ringleaders, banishes the lesser culprits, and confiscates their property. In 1100, Baldwin's brother Godfrey, ruler of Jerusalem, dies. Baldwin is invited to Jerusalem to succeed his brother as King of Jerusalem. He then appoints another Latin to rule over Edessa, goes promptly to Jerusalem, and is crowned there on the 25th of December, the same year.
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Քասունի, Ե., Հ., «Խաչակիր Առաջին Արշաւանքները Կիլիկիոյ Մէջ Եւ Եդեսիոյ Լատին Կոմսութեան Հիմնադրութիւնը», Հայկազեան Հայագիտական Հանդէս, 1973, Պէյրութ, էջ 29-47