Dec 24, 2009

Salem on History | Failure of the Seventh Crusade

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Article abstract: The failure of the Seventh Crusade contributes to the growing disillusionment and anti-Crusade sentiment characteristic of mid- to late thirteenth century Europe.

Summary of Event

A little more than one hundred and fifty years after Pope Urban II called the First Crusade in 1095, King Louis IX of France embarked on what historians regard as the end of the crusading movement. Louis can be seen as leader of two crusades, or of one crusade in two phases. In either interpretation, it is the earlier effort that is usually called the Seventh...

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