Third Crusade

The Third Crusade
Pairt o the Crusades
Richard the Lionhert mairches taewart Jerusalem. James William Glass (1850).
Date 11 Mey 1189 – 2 September 1192 Location Maistly Levant an Anatolie Result Treaty o Jaffa Crusader militar veectory, resultin in a three-year truce. Recogneetion o the territorial status quo at the end o active campaignin, includin conteena'd Muslim control o Jerusalem an the restoration o the Levantine Crusader States. The safety o baith Christian an Muslim unairmed pilgrims guaranteed ootthrou the Levant. Territorial changes The Crusade capturs Cyprus an the Kinrick o Cyprus is established. The Levantine coast frae Tyre tae Jaffa returned tae Crusader control. The Crusaders recaptur Tiberias an some inland territories frae the Muslims.
Belligerents
Crusaders: Angevin Empire Kinrick o Fraunce Haly Roman Empire Genoa Pisa Kinrick o Hungary Levantine Crusader states: Kinrick o Jerusalem Coonty o Tripoli Principality o Antioch Crusadin orders: Knichts Templar Knichts Hospitaller Teutonic Order Order o the Haly Sepulchre Order o Saunt Lazarus Knichts o Saunt Thomas Eastren Christian allies: Kinrick o Cilicia	Muslim forces: Ayyubid Sultanate Egyp Damascus Hamah Mesopotamie Sultanate o Rûm Nizari Ismaili state Eastren Christian opponents: Byzantine Empire Empire o Cyprus Laitin Christian opponents: Kinrick o Sicily
Commanders an leaders
Crusaders: Richard I o Ingland Philip II o Fraunce Hugh III o Burgundy † Theobald V o Blois † Henry II o Champagne Philip I o Flanders † Frederick I Barbarossa † Frederick VI o Swabie † Leopold V o Austrick Conrad o Montferrat Děpolt o Bohemie † Markward von Annweiler Albert II o Brandenburg Prince Géza o Hungary Levantine Crusader states: Guy I o Jerusalem Humphrey IV o Toron Balian o Ibelin Raymond III o Tripoli Joscelin III o Edessa † Crusadin orders: Grand Master Robert de Sablé Grand Master Garnier de Nablus Master Sibrand Eastren Christian allies: Leo I o Armenie	Muslim forces: Saladin Taqi ad-Din Saphadin Al-Afdal Gökböri Kilij Arslan II Rashid ad-Din Sinan Eastren Christian opponents: Isaac II Angelos Isaac Komnenos o Cyprus Laitin Christian opponents: Tancred I o Sicily
Strenth
35,000–50,000 truips 12,000–25,000 frae the HRE states 8,000–9,000 Inglis/Normans/Welsh 7,000+ French 2,000 frae Outremer 1,000 Templars an Hospitallers 2,000 Hungarians 2,000 Genoese an Pisans 2,000 uther (Danes, Norses, Turcopoles, etc.)	Ayyubids: 25,000

The Third Crusade (1189–1192), kent as The Kings' Crusade forby, wis an attempt bi European leaders tae reconquer the Haly Laund frae Saladin (Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb).

References

Soorces

• Loud, G. A. (2010). The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa: The History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick and Related Texts. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9780754665755.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)