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670
Prayer from a thirteenth-century knight in Tyerman,
God’s War
, 921.

671
Quote from the man who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in May 1981. Carole Hillenbrand, “The Legacy of the Crusades,” in
Crusades—The Illustrated History
, ed. Thomas F. Madden (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004), 208.

672
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 918.

673
Andrew Curry, “The First Holy War,”
U.S. News & World Report
, March 31, 2002. Accessed February 2, 2014.

674
Karen Armstrong,
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World
, 2nd edition (New York: Random House, 2001), xiv, in Rodney Stark,
God’s Battalions
, 245. For Armstrong’s self-description as a “freelance monotheist,” see “The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong”, transcript of an interview with Krista Tippett on the show “On Being,” May 8, 2008.
http://www.onbeing.org/program/freelance-monotheism-karen-armstrong/transcript/4487
. Accessed February 2, 2014.

675
Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
, 217.

676
Emmanuel Sivan,
Modern Arab Historiography of the Crusades
(Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1973), 12, in Stark,
God’s Battalions
, 247.

677
Tyerman,
The Debate on the Crusades
, 150.

678
Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
, 220.

679
One scholar maintains that Muslims remembered Saladin in the centuries after his death, although the argument is not overwhelmingly convincing. Diana Abouali, “Saladin’s Legacy in the Middle East before the Nineteenth Century,”
Crusades
, vol. 10, The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011), 175–189.

680
See Scott's 1825 novel,
The Talisman.

681
Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
, 219.

682
Ibid.

683
Tyerman,
The Debate on the Crusades
, 239
.

684
Ibid.

685
Maalouf,
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
, 266.

686
Riley-Smith,
The Crusades
, 307.

687
Madden,
The New Concise History of the Crusades
, 222.

688
Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi,
Kitab al-Maghazi
, vol. 3 (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), 1113, in Karsh,
Islamic Imperialism
, 19.

689
Belloc,
The Crusades,
5.

690
Piers Paul Read, Foreword, in Regine Pernoud’s
The Templars—Knights of Christ
, trans. Henry Taylor (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009), 7.

691
Tyerman,
God’s War
, 917.

Timeline of Crusades and Other Major Events

 

Dates

Crusade

Pope

Christian Warriors

Opponents

Events

Locations

1096–1102

First

Bl. Urban II

Hugh of Vermandois, Raymond of Toulouse, Robert of Normandy, Stephen of Blois, Robert II of Flanders, Godfrey de Bouillon, Bohemond, Bishop Adhemar

Kilij Arslan, Kerbogha

Liberation of Nicaea and Antioch. Battle of Dorylaeum, Liberation of Jerusalem, Establishment of Crusader States

Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), Syria, Holy Land

1147–1149

Second

Bl. Eugenius III

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, King Louis VII of France, Conrad III of Germany

Zengi, Nur-al Din

Siege of Damascus

Damascus

1187

Urban III

King Guy de Lusignan, Raymond III of Tripoli, Reynald of Châtillon, Balian of Ibelin

Saladin

Battle of Hattin, Fall of Jerusalem

Outrémer

1189–1192

Third

Gregory VIII

Frederick Barbarossa, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Philip II Augustus

Saladin

Conquest of Cyprus, Siege of Acre, Battle of Arsuf

Cyprus, Anatolia, Syria, Outrémer

1201–1205

Fourth

Innocent III

Thibaut III of Champagne, Enrico Dandolo, Boniface of Montferrat, Alexius Angelus

Alexius III, Alexius V

Sieges of Zara and Constantinople

Venice, Dalmatia, Constantinople

1218–1221

Fifth

Innocent III

King John of Brienne, Cardinal Pelagius, St. Francis of Assisi

al-Kamil

Siege of Damietta

Egypt

1228–1229

Sixth

Gregory IX

Frederick II

al-Kamil

Jerusalem

Outrémer

1248–1254

1st Crusade
of St. Louis IX

Innocent IV

St. Louis IX

Turan Shah

Siege of Damietta, Mansourah

Egypt, Outrémer

1269–1272

2nd Crusade
of St. Louis IX

Clement IV

St. Louis IX

Baybars

Tunis

North Africa

1291

Nicholas IV

King Henry II of Jerusalem, Amalric

al-Mansur Qalawun, al-Ashraf Khalil

Fall of Acre

Outrémer

1453

Nicholas V

Constantine XI

Mehmet II

Fall of Constantinople

Constantinople

1565

Pius IV

Jean de La Valette

Suleiman the Magnificent, Mustapha Pasha, Piyale

Siege of Malta

Malta

1571

St. Pius V

Don Juan of Austria

Selim II, Ali Pasha

Battle of Lepanto

Gulf of Lepanto

1683

Bl. Innocent XI

Emperor Leopold I, Rüdiger Starhemberg, King Jan Sobieski

Mehmet IV, Kara Mustapha

Siege of Vienna

Austria

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