XXV. CRUSADER CASTLES AND A CRAFTY BLIND VENETIAN

 

Hospitallers

H. J. A. Sire, KNIGHTS OF MALTA

Crac

Arsur

Pope Gregory VIII

Henry II of England; Philip II “Augustus” of France

Of Poitou

Richard I, Coeur de Lion

“Saladin Tithe”

Frederick I Barbarossa

Calycadnus River

Tarsus to Antioch to Tripoli

William II of Sicily; Messina

Cyprus; Guy de Lusignan

Acre

Horns of Hattin

August 16, 1191

Ascalon

Conrad of Montferrat

Count Henry of Champagne to Isabella

Jaffa and Tyre

Duke Leopold V of Austria

Worms

 

1183 Humphrey of Toron (Crac)

1192 Conrad of Montferrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . daughter Mary

1192 Henry of Champagne                                                           .

1197 Amalric (or Amaury) of Lusignan                                       .

1205 Amalric II dies, 4 years old                                                  .

                                                                                                       .OO John de Brienne

 

Innocent III

Siege of Chalus-Chabrol

Count Theobald of Champagne (Henry’s brother!)

 

Passage for 33,500 men with horses – 55,000 # of silver

Doge Dandolo

37,000 # of silver? For 11,000 men?

Zara

Papal Legate Peter Capuano

October 1202:  50 transports; 100 horse transports; 60 war galleys – Adriatic Sea