Third Crusade

Historical Events of the Middle Ages The Middle Ages is the period in European history from the collapse of the Roman empire in the fifth century to the period of the Renaissance in the fifteenth century. The medieval life may, at first, appear to be bleak, harsh, and dreary. But in actuality, it was a time of Kings, immense battles, disease and religious influence. From the devastation of the Bubonic Plague, briefly alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, to the legendary king and war-hero

Richard The Lionheart was born on September 8, 1157 at Beaumont Palace, Oxford. He gained his infamous nickname “Richard the Lionheart” through his experience of leading rebels in Poitou in the 1170s against his father, Henry II. During the third crusades he won in the battles of Cyprus, Acre and Arsuf against Saladin. Richard the lion heart was famous for his fighting ability and fought in many key battles during the Crusades.The battle of Arsuf for example is where he displayed his brilliant

The Byzantium Empire was the Eastern addition to the Roman Empire during the Late Antiquity and The Middle Ages. Established in the Ancient Greek city Byzantion in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine as the new imperial capital of Rome. Furthermore, he had added duplicates of everything from Old Rome, such as the Coliseum and the Imperial Palace, not including the Pagan temples. The Byzantines had spoken Greek and had more Greek architecture and culture than Roman. The Byzantium Empire had

improved production of crops was accomplished with less labor this allowed farmers to turn their attention to other endeavors which allowed them to make more money. The noble class was forced to sell the peasants their freedom so they could fund the crusades, pay loans and buy luxury items. The peasants not being tied to the farm, produced goods that could be sold at the local market place which gave many the funds to by their freedom. The market place where they sold these goods was located along

Richard also had a straightforward character, which was based on the judgment of the enemies he had made. The number of enemies he has made throughout his life was at its peak during the Third Crusades. One man he had fallen out with was Philip of France, a close boyhood friend, by insulting Duke Leopold of Austria, the leader of the German chance of the crusaders. Richard was often feared and admired by many allies and enemies, including

As they stood divided, the kingdom was taken from them by a 1 Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Oxford History Of The Crusades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1. 2 Ibid., 2. powerful and exceedingly unified power who, seeing their instability, rejoiced and seized the opportunity to regain the Levant and expel the Franks back to Europe. In the film Kingdom

all over Europe to take action in reclaiming the Holy city of Jerusalem from the Muslims in the Middle East. It was in this year,1095, that the beginning of the first, of nine, Crusades and thus the first series of religious wars between the Catholics and Muslims begun. The focus of this paper will remain on the Third Crusade (1189-1192 A.D)- more specifically the actions of ‘Islam’s Warrior Hero’ Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb who was better known to the English as Saladin- Sultan of Egypt. How did

The first crusade was initiated by Pope Urban II on November 27, 1095, where he called upon the nobility of the Franks of Western Europe, to help save their Christian brothers the Byzantines, in the East against the attacks of the Muslim Turks. In addition, he encouraged

The English author of historical fiction, was born in September 1975 in Oxford. Robin Young grew up in Midlands and in a small fishing village in Devon. She first discovered she was talented in story telling through her grandfather and was later on lucky to find an enthusiastic English teacher who introduced her to poetry. She won poetry awards and got a position of editing a page in the regional newspaper. Robyn left her home at the age of seventeen and joined Exeter college for her A-levels

hundred soldiers to help him; however, they put together a massive army that consisted of about 30,000 soldiers. These soldiers were french, german, and italian. He was pretty surprised. What surprises are in for him next? THE CRUSADES START OFF STRONG: The Crusade started off fairly well. The European armies took over some of