Daily Medieval

After the Battle of Jaffa , with Richard I and the members of the Third Crusade once again in control of the city, a truce was made between ...

The Battle of Arsuf was a great disappointment for Saladin's Ayubbid forces, and to even the score with the Third Crusade under Richar...

Once the Hospitallers broke ranks and attacked Saladin's Ayubbid forces at the Battle of Arsuf , the nearest contingent—Frankish troops—...

Saladin had been following the forces of the Third Crusade, led by Richard I of England, down the coast of the Mediterranean toward Jaffa. R...

When Richard I of England arrived to lead the Siege of Acre that had been begun by Guy of Lusignan , things started looking up for the Crus...

When the Third Crusade started , it became a problem for Saladin. This was not only because it meant more Western European Christians trying...

Perhaps the most prominent Muslim in the centuries of the Crusading period was Yusuf ibn Ayyub, a Kurdish man who was given the nickname or ...

After the disastrous Battle of Hattin , when Guy of Lusignan overestimated his ability to counter Saladin's encroachment on territory c...

Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 – 18 July 1194), who married Sibylla of Jerusalem (twice!) in yesterday's post ,  has been mentioned before in ...

Although Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was confirmed to have leprosy, he was still the only viable candidate to succeed his father, Amalric, as K...

You are Frederick I, offspring of two of Germany's most powerful families. As a young man, you went on Crusade and distinguished yoursel...

 The Horns of Hattin is an extinct volcano whose twin peaks overlook Hattin in the Lower Galilee. In 1187, a battle took place between the f...

I have written about Muslim-Christian relations before ( here and here ). Conflict between the forces of Western European culture and the A...

Mamluk going to war, from a 14th century History of the Tatars The short answer to the question posed in the title is "slaves....

[ source ] On 28 April in 1192, Conrad of Montferrat was assassinated. Conrad was an interesting character, a well-born European caugh...

Dimashq. دمشق. Dimishe'. al-Sh ām. The City of Jasmine. "Oldest continuously inhabited city in the world." Damascus. I...

Aleppo in Syria ranks with some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. There is evidence that people lived in that loca...

[Part 1 is here .] Saladin After Richard and Saladin each slaughtered their prisoners, Richard marched to Jaffa, which he hoped to mak...

The Second Crusade (1145-49) had put a great deal of the Holy Land under European rule, but Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, 1138-1193...