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The Fifth Crusade (September 1217 - August 29, 1221) [1] was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Saladin.
The siege of Damietta of 1218–1219 was part of the Fifth Crusade in which the Crusaders attacked the Egyptian port city of Damietta.The city, under the control of the Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil, was besieged in 1218 and taken by the Crusaders in 1219.
After Stephanie and their infant son died that year, John returned to Egypt. The Fifth Crusade ended in failure (including the recovery of Damietta by the Egyptians) in 1221. John was the first king of Jerusalem to visit Europe (Italy, France, England, León, Castile and Germany) to seek assistance for 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 ...
Pages in category "Fifth Crusade" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Battle of Mansurah (1221) D.
Muslims of the Fifth Crusade (10 P) This page was last edited on 28 September 2024, at 14:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The battle of Fāriskūr was a pitched battle fought between the army of the Fifth Crusade and Ayyubid Egypt on 29 August 1219 outside the Ayyubid encampment at Fāriskūr.It was fought while the siege of Damietta was ongoing.
Around 1209 there were Frisians in the army of the Albigensian Crusade [9] and around 1215, the Frisians responded to the preaching of the Fifth Crusade by Oliver of Paderborn and promised a fleet. According to the De itinere Frisonum they sailed in the spring of 1217 and they met the crusading fleet at the English port of Dartmouth .