Joined by other crusaders, they advanced into eastern Anatolia, but were crushed at the Battle of Mersivan in August by a coalition of Turkoman rulers. William of Nevers' army, heading south, …

Sep 22, 2025 · The Crusaders conquered Nicaea (in Turkey) and Antioch and then went on to seize Jerusalem, and they established a string of Crusader-ruled states. However, after the …

Oct 12, 2018 · Led by the French king Louis IX (r. 1226-1270), the Crusaders repeated the strategy of the Fifth Crusade and achieved only the same miserable results: the acquisition of …

Jun 7, 2010 · In the Fifth Crusade, put in motion by Pope Innocent III before he died in 1216, the Crusaders attacked Egypt from both land and sea but were forced to surrender to Muslim …

In 1175, Pope Alexander III used the promise of the same indulgence granted to Crusaders in the Holy Land to encourage the Christian rulers of León, Castile, and Aragón to go on the …

Aug 5, 2024 · The Crusaders sacked the city in 1204, a controversial act that deepened the schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians. On the flip side, the …

Records from Jewish communities around the Mediterranean sometimes described an undiscriminating ferocity and zealous fervor held by many crusaders, a theme also underlined …

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first and most successful of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the …

Each of these states came to be ruled by a Crusader leader who had authority over both Christian and Muslim populations. Many Crusaders returned to Europe after fulfilling their vows of …

Sep 22, 2025 · With the exception of Carcassonne, which held out for a few months, much of the territory of the Albigeois surrendered to the Crusaders. Command of the Crusade was then …