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of their former sclvcs fnllot\.irsg

Saladin's great victory at the battle of Mattin in 118T.Outr-cme~;

;\s ~t~eclie\al

any hooks on the Crusacles assume that the Crr~sacler statrs in

the Middle East were sh;~do~vs

westcrners called the remaining tatin or Gatl~olic e~lcla\.r+s

eastern .Ueditcrmnean, was no lotlgrr a threat to Islam and their

military elitcs generally preferred to livc in peace, focusing on tracle as

much as the dcfencc of Chrisrenclorn's holy pfaccs. Ftdlalvin;~ thc

Cntsade of t 2.1941 the Kingdom ofJerusalem expantled ag~in, hut rllen

fell hack following the bartFe OF LT Forbie in 1244 - n rlisast~r in that it

was mnre final than Hattin. TF~ereafterfear of an alliance I~enveenthe

G.t~saclers anri the Mongol inrsdcrs convinced the Ma~nlnks to dcstl-ov

rhe Latin stales once and for all. But the fall of Acre in 3291 was not the

cntl of the stnry. The hmcnian Kingdom of Cilicia survi\*ccl Cr>r alntost

a centrity ~vllile the Crusaclcr ECingdnrn of Cyprus outlaster1 the h-liddlc

Ages. Another Outremcr had meanwhile Exen created nroz~ntl the

Aegean arid cventuaIly into the Rlack Sea following the Fourth Crusade

of 1204. In fact Ourremer only survived hecause Europeans dominated

the seas while its gradual colIapse usually resulted from insufficient

manpower to hold fortified places. Nevertheless this fa11 still came as a

zerrible shock to CI~rhistendorn.

1 f 87 Muslims reconquer almost all the Kingdom ofJerusalem and other

Cru,mder stares.

11 89 Kingdom of Jerusalem begins counter-attack.

1 I92 Richard I of England conquers Cyprus from Byzantines.

1204 Fourth Crusade captures Byantine capital of Constantinople

(Istanbul); establishment of the tatin Empire of Romania.

1229-33 Civil war in Latin IGngdom oFCyprus.

I244 hluslims (Khwarazmian freebooters) retake Jerusalem; defeat of

Kingdom ofJerusalem at battle of La Forbie.

125658 Civil trar in Kingdom ofJerusalem (War of St Sabas).

126 l Byantines retake Constantinople (Istanbul) and much OF southern

Greece.

l!M Mamluks conquerhtioch,Jaffi and other parts of the Crumder states.

in tl~c

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1271 Charles of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily, recognized aq Kr~g'of

Albania.

1277-78 Charles of 11n.jou buys I<ingclonl of Jcri~salctnancl c;ikes over

Latin Principality of Acliaea.

1282 Invasion of Sicily by Aragonesc; start of ilnge~-in-Ne;lpolitariand

Aragonese rivalry in eastern hlecliterrancan.

1286 I<ingdom ofJerus:ilem untlcr Icing of Cyprus.

1291 Muslims conquer rlcre, end of I<ingtlom of.Jerusalem.

1311 Catalzin freebooters conquer Principality of Athens.

1334 Crr~saderLeague clefeats Turks in Gulf of Edremit.

1344 Crusader League seizes Izmir from Turks.

Crusaders and residents

European knights had been taught to despise their h,luslim foes as

cowards who fought from a dist;~nce;supposedly because they had so

little blood in their veins that they feared getting hltrt. Such ludicrous

propaganda clecreased in tlie 13th century as tlie Church, and tlie more

educated knights, came to see their enemies as heretics rather than

pagans. Moral doubts prompted by contact \\rith Islamic ci\ilization were

also expressecl bv a certain Ricoldus around 1294 when lie wrote: 'We

have been amazed that amongst the follo~\-ersof so perfidious a law,

deecls of so great perfection are to be found.' R4eanr\lhiIe anti-Byzantine

prejuclice increased; Orthodox Greeks being portrayed as devious,

colv;irtlly and effete. Tliougli tlie appeal of Crusading was fading fast,

many knights remained a warlike breed. As the southern French trou-

badour Pierre de Dergerac sang ;u-ound 1204:

the rnttling

Of ihr hozrberk (rgai~tst

thr sniilr-Dozu

A71i to hrclr the tinlzling andjingling of the hnrness Dells,

Tften I rushfor~unrdclni see pou~poinfsnnd gn~nbrsons

Tlzrol~mon tq/)of arm0tcr.r.

The rustling of thr pennons Iifrs nty sj~irifs.

I know that IzatrO~rksand hekn~kand shirkis

llrill /lave thPir iq soon,

And horses and lances nnd szuords

And good vassalsfrom this time on.

Annales de Genes, late 12thlearly

13th century. (Bib. Nat., Ms. Lat.

10134, Paris)

BELOW LEFT Tho-masted

merchant ship of the type which

carried Crusaders and supplies

to the eastern' Mediterranean.

BELOW War-galley or perhaps a

horse-transport tarida with its

mast and sail removed.

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crntIiry [he 111or:ilist St~ptlt'~~

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lord. tn \clln~~t

IIC c;tn~iut I-c'i*itsr- cll~r.(lice~cc,

eupetlition hilt I prntl~ise

tFl:~t I ~t-ill

l)c yn~t~'

kl~iglit

~hrre, w~~ting

11r)thing ill it esrt-pt ol~crlic~~cr

to yoit, to eliinie~atcevil

1n srek alrer n.l-r;ir is gotld ill cvcry orrasion :IS ~lrrlrll as I ran.'

Ttio~~gh

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1%';1s SP~?? as '~IIc atpreme religiuris relic lo hc

dcfrndetl againlit hluslirn t-cconqllrst. thr cntasrroplkic failzirc nf silr-

crq5it.c C:l-rrsndcs ~~ntlcrmirrerl

them I-lnly I,;IIIC~

11;lck in Etrlmpe. Rv rhr

n1id-l:3th centtiry leatlirlg C111tr.ch tl~i~~krrs

rntll~~l;E:~s~n

like Htrnll~err of Romans

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despite their sin.; l~y

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