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Crusades include the traditional numbered crusades and other conflicts that prominent historians have identified as crusades. The scope of the term "crusade" first referred to military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to the Holy Land.
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 ...
10 September. Al-Adil I leads a force that takes the city in the Battle of Jaffa. [79] 10 September. Henry I of Jerusalem dies from falling out of a window at his palace in Acre. His widow, Isabella I of Jerusalem, becomes regent while the kingdom is thrown into consternation. [80] 22 September. The German forces of the Crusade of 1197 arrive ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of the principal leaders of the Crusades, classified by Crusade. Crusader invasions of Egypt ...
Crusades of the 15th century are those Crusades that follow the Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399, throughout the next hundred years. In this time period, the threat from the Ottoman Empire dominated the Christian world, but also included threats from the Mamluks , Moors , and heretics .
The Crusades: A Chronology, covering 1096–1444, in The Crusades—An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray. [7] Important Dates and Events, 1049–1571, in History of the Crusades, Volume III, edited by Kenneth M. Setton (1975). [8] Historical Dictionary of the Crusades, by Corliss K. Slack. Chronology from 1009–1330. [9]
A Narrative Outline of the Crusades, covering 1096-1488, ibid. [8] The Crusades: A Chronology, covering 1096–1444, in The Crusades—An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray. [9] Important Dates and Events, 1049–1571, in History of the Crusades, Volume III, edited by Kenneth M. Setton. [10]
10 October 732. Charles Martel defeats the Moorish forces led by Abd al-Rahman at the Battle of Tours. [10] 25 January 750. The Umayyads are defeated at the Battle of the Zab, leading to the Abbasid Revolution. [11] The Abbasid Caliphate assumes control of the Holy Land. [c] [12] 777. Charlemagne and Harun al-Rashid pursue an Abbasid ...