Sadarian Crusade

Sadarian Crusades
Crusader armies take Mass before the final assault on Archbishop's forces near Argona
Date 1204-1221 Location Sadaria Result Crusader victory; conquest of Sadaria; Sadarian Inquisition
Belligerents
Crusader forces	Archbishopric of Argona Kingdom of Shadar

The Sadarian Crusades were a series of conflicts fought over a 17-year period between the crusader forces of the Holy Apostolic Church against the Agathist followers (located mostly in Sadaria) of the heretical Archbishopric of Argona, allied with the Unitarian Kingdom of Shadar. The conflict ended with the victory of the crusaders and imposition of the Church's control over the island of Sadaria following a violent Inquisition.

After the conflict, and the Inquisition that followed, the native Shadari-speaking Sadarian nobility were nearly eliminated and replaced with a Dundorfian-speaking feudal aristocracy. The Crusades and the Inquisition led to the near extermination of Agathism, Unitarianism, and Paganism in Sadaria.

Phases

Invasion of Argona (1204 - 1205)

- Island invaded along the coast near the "elbow" of the region

- first victim was Bishopric of of Saint Atyrius Vanles, defeated and taken over as base in 1204; Abbey of Saint Atyrius Vanles was used as first headquarters of Grand Inquisitor Georgius Mauritius

- Bishop Iulius Eustathius was first victim of Inquisition

First Attempt at Argona (1205)

- Crusader armies defeated outside Argona;

- armies of the Crusade were attempting to not only to destroy the Archbishop's army but also to deface and disestablish the power of the Archbishop with an attack on the village's shrine to the first Sanctus Redemptor Onuphrius

Invasion of Shadar

- turned attention on Kingdom of Shadar

- Shadar had supported Argona against the Crusaders