The Crusade of 1129 or the Damascus Crusade was a military campaign of the Kingdom of Jerusalem with forces from the other crusader states and from western Europe against the Emirate of Damascus. The brainchild of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, the crusade failed to meet its military objectives. Its diplomatic preliminaries, however, secured the succession to the throne of Jerusalem and papal backing for the Knights Templar.
The Crusadeof1129 or the Damascus Crusade was a military campaign of the Kingdom of Jerusalem with forces from the other crusader states and from western...
Venetian Crusade (1122–1124) (Crusadeof Calixtus II) Crusadeof Conrad III (1124) Political Crusade against Roger II of Sicily (1127–1135) Crusadeof1129 (Damascus...
V of Anjou. This allowed the Franks to capture the town of Banias during the Crusadeof1129. Defeat at Damascus and Marj al-Saffar ended the campaign...
The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church...
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John Hughes Siege of Damascus during the Crusadeof1129 Siege of Damascus (1148), a failed siege during the Second Crusade Siege of Damascus (1229), a...
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The Wendish Crusade (German: Wendenkreuzzug) was a military campaign in 1147, one of the Northern Crusades, led primarily by the Kingdom of Germany within...
Norwegian Crusade, led by Norwegian King Sigurd I, was a crusade or a pilgrimage (sources differ) that lasted from 1107 to 1111, in the aftermath of the First...
The Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) was the first of the two Crusades led by Louis IX of France. Also known as the Crusadeof Louis IX to the Holy Land, it...
The Crusadeof Varna was an unsuccessful military campaign mounted by several European leaders to check the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Central...
The Crusadeof 1101 was a minor crusadeof three separate movements, organized in 1100 and 1101 in the successful aftermath of the First Crusade. It is...
Bosnian Crusade was fought against unspecified heretics from 1235 until 1241. It was, essentially, a Hungarian war of conquest against the Banate of Bosnia...
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