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The First Crusade started. Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade.
Was a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands -
Bohemond I, elder son of Robert Guiscard, led the capture of Antioch.
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The Battle of Orontes. The First Crusade wins a victory forcing Emir Kerboga to lift the siege of Antioch
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The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city.
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The fall of Edessa, was the primary cause of the Second Crusade.
It took place in Iberia, Near East (Anatolia, Levant, Palestine) and Egypt -
King Louis VII announces that France will join in the Second Crusade.
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The crusaders started thier journey from Regensburg to Constanitople.
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The attack was in Acre in Damascus. Kings Louis VII and Conra III were there along with Patriarch Fulcher, Archbishops, Masters of the Knights temple and the hospital.
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Arguments began between the leaders of France and Germany and became such a conflict that Conrad III returned to Constantinople. The Crusaders lost the battle.
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Also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate goal—the reconquest of Jerusalem.
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The expedition of the French and English achieved little, other than the capture od Acre. King Philip and King Richard came by sea and capture Acre.
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Crusaders under the command of Richard the Lion Heart march on Jerusalem. but they are turned back due to Saladin's scorched-earth tactics which denied the Crusaders food and water during their campaign.
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King Richard and Saladin signed a treaty where Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, but also allowed unarmed Christian pilgrims to enter the city. The third crusade ends.
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The Fourth Crusade started. The leaders of the crusade decided to make Egypt their objective point, since this country was then the center of the Moslem power.
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After just five days of fighting, Crusaders capture the Hungarian port of Zara.
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The crusaders, now better styled the invaders, took Constantinople. They burned down a great part of it; destroyed monuments, statues, paintings, and manuscripts - the accumulation of a thousand years
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The soliders of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople again and satart up an Latin Empire of Byzantium.
The Crusade ends.
