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SUMMARY OF THE CRUSADES |
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| Dates | Name | Western Commanders | Opponents | Area | Results |
| 1096 - 1099 | First Crusade | Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine;
Baldwin of Boulogne; Hugh, Count of Vermandois; Raymond of Toulouse, Count of St. Gilles; Robert, Duke of Normandy; Bohemond of Taranto |
Kilij Arslan, Seljuk Turkish sultan
Vizier of Antioch, Yagi-sian Emir of Mosul, Kerbogha, Damshmed Emir Malik Ghazi, Emir of Aleppo, Redwan |
Through Constantinople across Asia Minor and Syria, to Jerusalem | Captured Antioch, Tripoli, Jerusalem and established
kingdoms in Palestine ***** |
| 1099-1100 | Second wave of First Crusade - Stephen of Blois ordered
by wife to return - died Raymond of Toulouse again, survived |
Stephen Count of Blois; Stephen Count of Burgundy; William II Count of Nevers; William IX Duke of Aquitaine; Conrad, Constable of Germany; Welf, Duke of Bavaria; Albert Count of Biandrate; Guibert Count of Parma |
Seljuk Turks | Through Constantinople and into Asia Minor | Second wave destroyed in Asia minor |
| 1097 - 1140 | Independent Crusades | Guymemer of Boulogne ; Eric the Good, King of Danes; Sigurd I King of Norway; Pisan, Genoese, Venetian navies |
by sea by rivers through Russia then by sea by sea with stop in Portugal, then across Mediterranian by sea |
Eric died in Cyprus and his wife led Danish fleet to Palestine Norwegian Vikings Assisted in capture of Sidon and other ports; Italian cities provided continuous naval and logistic support |
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| 1147-1149 | Second Crusade | Louis VII, King of France; Conrad III Emperor of Germany; Frederick Duke of Swabia; Vladislav King of Bohemia; Boleslav IV King of Poland; Bishop Otto of Freising; Count of Auvergne; Count of Savoy; Marquis of Montferrat; Alphonso Jordan, Count of Toulouse; Henry Glanville, Constable of Suffolk, |
Nur-ed-din-Anar (son of Zengi), emir of
Aleppo, emir of Damascus, son of Kilji Arslan, Daneshmed emir, |
French and Germans through Asia Minor to Damascus; English, Flemings and others by sea |
Defeated at Damascus; northern group helped Portuguese capture Lisbon |
| 1189-1192 | Third Crusade | Richard I, King of England; Philip II Augustus, King of France; Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor; Conrad Marquis of Montferrat; Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem Hugh Duke of Burgundy; Leopold, Duke of Austria, Henry of Champagne |
Saladin, emir of Egypt, Damascus, Aleppo, et cetera | Frederick through Asia Minor;
Philip and Richard by sea to Acre |
Frederick drowned en route; Richard captured Cyprus; Richard and Philip captured Acre; Richard gained some treaty rights |
| 1202-1204 | Fourth Crusade | Boniface of Montferrat; Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice; Theobald, Count of Champagne (died); Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders; Count of Blois | Alexius III Alexius IV Murzuphlus |
By sea to Constantinople | Captured city; established Latin Empire |
| 1212 | Children's Crusade | Sold into Slavery | |||
| 1218-1221 | Fifth Crusade | John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem;
Pelagius, Papal legate; Andrew, King of Hungary; Leopold VI, Duke of Austria; Louis I Duke of Bavaria, Hugh, King of Cyprus |
Sultan Malik - al- Adil (d. 1218)
Malik-al-Kamil |
By sea to Egypt | Failure |
| 1228-1229 | Sixth Crusade | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem | Malik-al-Kamil, Sultan of Egypt | By sea to Acre | Treaty rights to Jerusalem and coast towns |
| 1248-1254 | Seventh Crusade | St. Louis IX of France | Malik-al-Salih | By sea to Egypt | Failure |
| 1270-1272 | Eighth Crusade | St. Louis IX of France Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily; Prince Edward of England |
Bey of Tunis; Bibars, Sultan of Egypt | By sea to Tunis - part by sea to Acre | Treaty favorable for Sicily |