Battle of Ager Sanguinis

Battle of Ager Sanguinis
Part of the Crusades

Battle of Ager-Sanguinis, 1337 miniature
Date28 June 1119
Location
Balat, near Sarmada[a]
Result Artuqid victory
Belligerents
Artuqids of Aleppo Principality of Antioch
Commanders and leaders
Ilghazi
Ibn al-Khashshab
Roger of Salerno 
Strength
20,000[1]

7,000–11,000[1]


700 knights[2]
500 Armenian cavalry[3]
3,000 infantry[4]
Turcopoles and auxiliaries[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown Most killed
570 captured, of whom 30 executed[5]

In the Battle of Ager Sanguinis, also known as the Battle of the Field of Blood, the Battle of Sarmada, or the Battle of Balat, Roger of Salerno's Crusader army of the Principality of Antioch was annihilated by the army of Ilghazi of Mardin, the Artuqid ruler of Aleppo on 28 June 1119.


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  1. ^ a b c Tibble 2018, p. 273.
  2. ^ Stevenson 1907, p. 103.
  3. ^ Smail 1995, p. 47.
  4. ^ Tibble 2018, p. 272.
  5. ^ Stevenson 1907, p. 104.