Louis and Conrad and the remnants of their armies reached Jerusalem and participated in 1148 in an ill-advised attack on Damascus. The crusade in the east was a failure for the crusaders and a great victory for the Muslims….
Q. Why did the pope agree to help the Byzantine emperor?
While in the 900s Byzantium had been able to reseize territory in Syria, starting around the 1030s the Seldjuk Turks gained power and territory. These incursions prompted the emperor of Byzantium, Alexius I Comnenus to send a delegation to Piacenza, Italy, asking Pope Urban II in March 1095 for help against the Turks.
Table of Contents
- Q. Why did the pope agree to help the Byzantine emperor?
- Q. Why did the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople?
- Q. When did the Second Crusade end?
- Q. What happened to Richard I on the way home from the Third Crusade?
- Q. What did King John do to his wife?
- Q. Who was Richard the First?
- Q. Why did Richard go on the Third Crusade?
- Q. Did King Richard come back from the Crusades?
- Q. Did King Richard return to England after the Crusades?
Q. Why did the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople?
In March 1204, the Crusader and Venetian leadership decided on the outright conquest of Constantinople in order to settle debts, and drew up a formal agreement to divide the Byzantine Empire between them.
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Q. When did the Second Crusade end?
1145 – 1149
Q. What happened to Richard I on the way home from the Third Crusade?
What happened to Richard I on his way back to England from the Crusade? Sailing home via the Adriatic, Richard I was captured and imprisoned in the castle of Duke Leopold of Austria, whom he had insulted during the Crusade. He was later handed over to the German emperor Henry VI.
Q. What did King John do to his wife?
Isabella of Angoulêmem. 1200–1216
Q. Who was Richard the First?
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period.
Q. Why did Richard go on the Third Crusade?
As king, Richard’s chief ambition was to join the Third Crusade, prompted by Saladin’s capture of Jerusalem in 1187. To finance this, he sold sheriffdoms and other offices and in 1190 he departed for the Holy Land. Richard arrived in the Holy Land in June 1191 and Acre fell the following month.
Q. Did King Richard come back from the Crusades?
The truth is that, having insulted and alienated most of his Christian allies while on crusade against Saladin, Richard was unable to return to his kingdom except by sneaking in disguise through the territory of the Duke of Austria, one of the many enemies he had made in the Holy Land.
Q. Did King Richard return to England after the Crusades?
Remarkably, the enormous ransom of 150,000 marks – roughly three times the income the English Crown – was raised, and Richard was released in 1194. He returned to England, but the visit was short-lived, and within months he was fighting to protect his lands in Normandy against Philip.
