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, …

Oct 26, 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 …

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 …

Oct 30, 2025 · The Crusaders elected Godfrey as their first leader. Upon Godfrey’s death in 1100, they named his brother Baldwin as the first king of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (which, in …

May 5, 2025 · There were as many different reasons for crusading as there were crusaders, but the single most common reason was piety. To crusade was to go on pilgrimage, a holy journey …

Jul 4, 2018 · Urban II embarked on a preaching tour in France during 1095-6 CE to recruit crusaders, where his message was spiced up with exaggerated tales of how, at that very …

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 …

The Crusaders initially enjoyed success, founding a Christian state in Palestine and Syria, but the continued growth of Islamic states ultimately reversed those gains.