Daily Medieval

After the brutal murder of Conrad of Montferrat right  after he was informed that he had been chosen to replace Guy of Lusignan as King of...

Richard I of England was now the leader of the Crusader force, and it was his responsibility to manage the final terms of surrender of the c...

So Conrad of Montferrat married Isabella of Jerusalem, the rightful queen, and took her back to Tyre while the former king by marriage to Is...

The first big clash between the army of Saladin and the Christians besieging the city of Acre led to thousands of losses for the Christians ...

So King of Jerusalem Guy of Lusignan was camped at Acre, ready to besiege the city and take control of it as a base for future conflict aga...

A couple weeks ago I mentioned the events that led to Saladin coming to power in Egypt. From there he had two choices: stay in Egypt and tr...

The Siege of Acre was two years long and a major event in the history of the Crusades. Although started independently by Guy of Lusignan in...

Gerard de Ridefort (that's his coat of arms to the left) is another of the many characters who has no known background recorded anywhere...

On the morning of 29 June 1170, the inhabitants of what are now western Syria, central southern Turkey, and Lebanon were rocked by one of th...

In 1163, the young Fatimid caliph of Egypt was al-Adid, who was only 12 and a puppet of several strong nobles and viziers. His current vizie...

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...