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Crusades

  • Period: 1000 to 1300

    Crusades Time Period

  • Pope Urban II preaches first crusade
    Nov 27, 1095

    Pope Urban II preaches first crusade

    This first preaching was geared explicitly to the French, those all others who wished to participate were encouraged--unless of course, they were from Spain. Main effort was to help push the vision onto others.
  • Official Start of First Crusade
    Aug 15, 1096

    Official Start of First Crusade

    Before the start of the first crusade began in the early spring/summer which crusaders massacring Jewish people. Also first waves of people crusades leave and 3 armies end up not making it past Hungary. In the early fall the second wave arriving at staggered times arrives at Constantinople, Alexius I Comnenus asks for and receives oaths of fealty and promises to return lands formerly under Byzantine control.
  • Jerusalem
    Jul 15, 1099

    Jerusalem

    Crusaders siege and end up sacking Jerusalem, unfortunately four days later on July 19 Pope Urban the II passes away and never knows of the victory.
  • Richard and Philip
    1191

    Richard and Philip

    Richard and Philip arrive in the mideast, besiege Acre. Acre falls to Richard and Philip, who then decide who will rule Jerusalem (between Guy and Conrad), Philip then leaves and Richard seizes Arsuf and Jaffa, refortifies Ascalon
  • Crusaders sack Constantinople
    Apr 12, 1204

    Crusaders sack Constantinople

    After previously having a strong resistance in April the crusaders were able to invade and sack Constantinople, this then lead to the creation of the government-in-exile that came about.
  • Eygpt Crusade
    1219

    Eygpt Crusade

    crusade in Egypt led by Cardinal Pelagius; he seized Damietta and tried to take Cairo but was defeated by al-Kamil, Egypt's sultan
  • Emperor Frederick II
    1228

    Emperor Frederick II

    Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, while under papal interdict, crusades in Egypt; al-Kamil gives him Jerusalem under a treaty; Jerusalem then under interdict
  • 6th Crusade
    1248

    6th Crusade

    Louis IX of France invades Egypt; he seizes Damietta, but is defeated and captured at the Mansurah; released for ransom (and Damietta). End of Ayyubid dynasty, Mamluks now control Egypt
  • Mongols
    1258

    Mongols

    Mongols under Hülegü (Genghis Khan's grandson) take Baghdad, kill the last 'Abbasid caliph; the population is massacred
  • 7th Crusade
    1270

    7th Crusade

    Seventh Crusade: Louis IX attacks Tunis later Louis IX dies near Tunis