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The terms Crusader states and Outremer (French: outre-mer, lit. 'overseas') describe the four feudal states established after the First Crusade in the Levant in around 1100: (from north to south) the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The term Outremer is of medieval origin ...
French Crusaders also brought their language to the Levant, thus establishing Old French as the lingua franca of the Crusader states, in which Latin served as the official language. While the majority of the population in the countryside comprised Christians and Muslims from local Levantine ethnicities, many Europeans (primarily French and ...
The War of the Lombards (1228–1242) was a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus between the "Lombards" (also called the imperialists), the representatives of the Emperor Frederick II, largely from Lombardy, and the native aristocracy, led first by the Ibelins and then by the Montforts.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...
Papal States [c] French Victory Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) Battle of Bosworth Field; Location: England House of Lancaster House of Tudor France Kingdom of Scotland: House of York Burgundian State: Victory and beginning of the Tudor dynasty: Castilian Civil War (1351–1369) Battle of Montiel; Location: Spain Forces of Henry of Trastámara ...
Crusader state Conflict established in Date established Date disestablished County of Edessa [1] First Crusade: 1098 1144 Principality of Antioch [2] First Crusade: 1098 1268 Kingdom of Jerusalem [3] First Crusade: 1099 1291 County of Tripoli [4] First Crusade: 1102 1289 Kingdom of Cyprus [5] Third Crusade: 1192 1489 Latin Empire [6] Fourth ...
The County of Tripoli (1102–1289) was one of the Crusader states. [1] It was founded in the Levant in the modern-day region of Tripoli , northern Lebanon and parts of western Syria . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When the Frankish Crusaders , mostly southern French forces – captured the region in 1109, Bertrand of Toulouse became the first count of Tripoli ...
3.2 From the Crusader states. 4 Crusade of 1197. 5 Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) ... Ayyubid–Crusader War (1177–1187) Baldwin IV of Jerusalem; Guy of Lusignan;