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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 (Ejegod), King of Danes; Sigurd I )Siguror), King of Norway; Pisan, Genoese, Venetian navies |
Remaining Moslem cities in Palestine | by sea by rivers through Russia to Kyiv then by sea via Constantinople by sea with stop in Portugal, then across Mediterranian and return via Constantinople and Kyiv by sea |
Eric died in Cyprus in 1103 and his wife., Bothilda, led Danish fleet to Palestine where she died at Jerusalem, many Danish Vikings entered the Byzantine Varangian Guard Norwegian Vikings Assisted in capture of Sidon and other ports; Italian cities provided continuous naval and logistic support |
| 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 Byzantine Emperor
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, King of France | Malik-al-Salih | By sea to Egypt | Failure |
| 1270-1272 | Eighth Crusade | St. Louis IX, King of France
Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily; Prince Edward, later King Edward I of England |
Bey of Tunis; Bibars, Sultan of Egypt | By sea to Tunis - part including Edward by sea to Acre | Treaty favorable for Sicily |