Battle of Iconium (1190)

Battle of Iconium
Part of the Third Crusade

Barbarossa and Crusaders on the Third Crusade
Liber ad honorem Augusti, 1195
Date18 May 1190
Location
Iconium (modern day Konya, Turkey)
37°52′00″N 32°29′00″E / 37.8667°N 32.4833°E / 37.8667; 32.4833
Result
  • Main Seljuk army routed
  • Sultanate of Rûm's capital city sacked; Crusaders take a massive amount of loot
  • Qutb al-Din replaced by his father, who agrees to let the Germans pass through and sends them hostages
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Hungary		 Sultanate of Rûm
Commanders and leaders
Géza
Prince of Hungary		 Qutb al-Din
Strength
2,000[5]		 Larger than the Crusaders[1][a]
Casualties and losses
800 Field army:
3,000 killed[6]
Garrison:
all killed or captured
20 nobles taken hostage

The Battle of Iconium (sometimes referred as the Battle of Konya) took place on May 18, 1190, during the Third Crusade, in the expedition of Frederick Barbarossa to the Holy Land. As a result, Iconium, the capital city of the Sultanate of Rûm under Kilij Arslan II, fell to the Imperial forces.

  1. ^ a b c Tyerman 2006, p. 426.
  2. ^ Phillips 2002, p. 140.
  3. ^ Loud 2010, p. 19.
  4. ^ Bachrach & Bachrach 2017, p. 197.
  5. ^ Konstam 2004, p. 124.
  6. ^ Loud 2010, p. 111.


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