The Battle of Montgisard, 1177. Charles Philippe Larivière, 1842–1844
Date
25 November 1177
Location
Montgisard (possibly Gezer), near Ramla, Kingdom of Jerusalem
Result
Crusader victory
Destruction of Saladin's army
Failure of Saladin to capture Jerusalem
Belligerents
Kingdom of Jerusalem Knights Templar
Ayyubid Dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem Renaud de Châtillon Eudes de Saint-Amand
Saladin Taqi al-Din Umar
Strength
3,000–4,500 men
80 Templars
375 Knights
2,500–4,000 infantry and archers[1]
21,000–26,000 men (greatly exaggerated)[2][a]
Casualties and losses
1,850 casualties[2][3]
1,100 killed
750 wounded
Most of the army killed
v
t
e
Ayyubid–Crusader conflict (1169–1254)
1st Damietta
Alexandria
Montgisard
Banias
Marj Ayyun
Jacob's Ford
Red Sea
1st Belvoir Castle
Al-Fule
Kerak
Cresson
Hattin
1st Jerusalem
Tyre
2nd Belvoir Castle
Laodicea
Sahyun
Al-Shughur
Bourzey
Safed
Acre
Arsuf
1st Jaffa
2nd Jaffa
Toron
Mount Tabor
Machghara
2nd Damietta
1st Fariskur
Limassol
1st Mansurah
1st Gaza
2nd Jerusalem
2nd Gaza
Ascalon
3rd Damietta
2nd Mansurah
2nd Fariskur
v
t
e
Crusades: battles in the Levant (1096–1303)
First Crusade
Xerigordos
Civetot
Nicaea
1st Dorylaeum
1st Antioch
Samosata
2nd Antioch
Ma'arra
Arqa
1st Jerusalem
1st Ascalon
Period post-First Crusade
Arsuf
Melitene
Mersivan
1st Heraclea
2nd Heraclea
1st Ramla
2nd Ramla
1st Tripoli
1st Acre
Harran
3rd Ramla
Artah
Beirut
Sidon
1st Shaizar
Al-Sannabra
Sarmin
Ager Sanguinis
Hab
Jaffa and Tyre
Yibneh
1st Aleppo
Azaz
Marj al-Saffar
al-Atharib
Rafaniyya
Antioch
Qinnasrin
Ba'rin
2nd Aleppo
2nd Shaizar
Edessa 1144
Edessa 1146
Bosra
Second Crusade
1st Constantinople
2nd Dorylaeum
Ephesus
Meander Valley
Mount Cadmus
Damascus
Period post-Second Crusade
Inab
Aintab
2nd Ascalon
Lake Huleh
Butaiha
al-Buqaia
Harim
1st Bilbeis
al-Babein
2nd Bilbeis
1st Damietta
Alexandria
Montgisard
Banias
Marj Ayyun
Jacob's Ford
Red Sea
1st Belvoir Castle
Al-Fule
Kerak
Cresson
Hattin
2nd Jerusalem
3rd Tyre
2nd Belvoir Castle
Laodicea
Sahyun
Al-Shughur
Bourzey
Safed
Third Crusade
Acre and Tyre
Philomelion
Iconium
1st Arsuf
1st Jaffa
Period post-Third Crusade
2nd Jaffa
Toron
Fourth Crusade
Zara
2nd Constantinople
3rd Constantinople
Fifth Crusade
Mount Tabor
Machghara
2nd Damietta
1st Fariskur
1st Mansurah
Sixth Crusade and aftermath
Gaza
3rd Jerusalem
Forbie
3rd Ascalon
Seventh Crusade
3rd Damietta
2nd Mansurah
2nd Fariskur
End of the Crusader states in the Levant
2nd Arsuf
Caesarea
Haifa
Safed
2nd Antioch
Eighth Crusade
Krak des Chevaliers
2nd Tripoli
Lord Edward's Crusade
Homs
Margat
3rd Tripoli
2nd Acre
Ruad
Late 15th century depiction of the battle from a copy of the Passages d'outremer
The Battle of Montgisard was fought between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Ayyubid Dynasty on 25 November 1177 at Montgisard, in the Levant between Ramla and Yibna.[4] The 16-year-old Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, severely afflicted by leprosy, led outnumbered Christian forces against Saladin's troops in what became one of the most notable engagements of the Crusades. The Muslim Army was quickly routed and pursued for twelve miles.[5] Saladin fled back to Cairo, reaching the city on 8 December, with only a tenth of his army.[2] Muslim historians considered Saladin's defeat to be so severe that it was only redeemed by his victory ten years later at the battles of Cresson and Hattin and the Siege of Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin did defeat Baldwin IV in the Battle of Marj Ayyun and the Siege of Jacob’s Ford in 1179, only to be defeated by Baldwin again at the Battle of Belvoir Castle in 1182 and the Siege of Kerak in 1183.[2]
^Jean Richard: The Latin kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume 1, North-Holland Pub. Co. Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 0444850929, p.
149
^ abcdeStevenson 1907, p. 218.
^Jean Richard: The Latin kingdom of Jerusalem. Volume 1, North-Holland Pub. Co. Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 0444850929, p. 149
^"Baldwin, Marshall W., and Setton, Kenneth M, A History of the Crusades: Volume One, The First Hundred Years, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1969, pp. 571, 595, 625, 650".
^Stevenson 1907, pp. 217–218.
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