The Papal bull granting the Crusade indulgence and authorising its preaching throughout Europe , `` Insurgentibus contra fidem '' , was published Publishing on 30 September .

The Third Crusade ( 1189–1192 ) was an attempt by the leaders of the three most powerful states of Western Christianity ( England , France , and the Holy Roman Empire ) to reconquer Conquering the Holy Land following the capture Conquering of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan , Saladin , in 1187 .

It was partially successful , recapturing Conquering the important cities of Acre and Jaffa , and reversing Change most of Saladin 's conquests , but it failed to recapture Conquering Jerusalem , which was the major aim of the Crusade and its religious focus .

After the failure of the Second Crusade of 1147-1149 , the Zengid dynasty controlled Control a unified Syria and engaged Hostile_encounter in a conflict Hostile_encounter with the Fatimid rulers of Egypt .

The successes of the Third Crusade allowed Preventing_or_letting Westerners to maintain Preserving considerable states in Cyprus and on the Syrian coast .

The failure to re-capture Jerusalem inspired Influence the subsequent Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204 , but Europeans would only regain Recovering the city—and only briefly—in the Sixth Crusade in 1229 .

The failure to re-capture Jerusalem inspired Influence the subsequent Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204 , but Europeans would only regain Recovering the city—and only briefly—in the Sixth Crusade in 1229 .

In the aftermath of the First Crusade Alexios I launched a counter-attack Attack which regained Recovering the territories lost .

The First Crusade ( 1095–1099 ) was the first of a number of crusades Military_operation that attempted to recapture Recovering the Holy Land , called Request for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 .

The resulting Causation military expedition Conquering of primarily Frankish nobles , known as the Princes ' Crusade , not only re-captured Attack much of Anatolia but went on to conquer Conquering the Holy Land ( the Levant ) , which had fallen Motion_directional to Islamic expansion Expansion as early as the 7th century , and culminated Process_end in July 1099 in the re-conquest Recovering of Jerusalem and the establishment Creating of the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

The successful Princes ' Crusade was preceded Process_start by the `` people crusade '' , which was a popular movement Social_event instigated by Peter the Hermit in the spring of 1096 .

The Princes ' Crusade , by contrast , was a well-organized military campaign Military_operation , starting Process_start out in late summer of 1096 and arriving at Arriving Constantinople between November 1096 and April 1097 .

Crusade historian Carl Erdmann considers Coming_to_believe the raid a direct precursor to the First Crusade ( `` ganz als Kreuzzug ausgeführt '' ) which occurred Coming_to_be eight years later , as it was conducted Action under the banner of St. Peter against a Muslim ruler who was demonised in the accounts of it , and a form Coming_to_be of indulgence was granted Giving to the campaigners by Pope Victor III .

Crusade historian Carl Erdmann considers Coming_to_believe the raid a direct precursor to the First Crusade ( `` ganz als Kreuzzug ausgeführt '' ) which occurred Coming_to_be eight years later , as it was conducted Action under the banner of St. Peter against a Muslim ruler who was demonised in the accounts of it , and a form Coming_to_be of indulgence was granted Giving to the campaigners by Pope Victor III .

The death of Manuel Komnenos in 1180 terminated Process_end military campaigns far from Constantinople and after the Fourth Crusade both the Byzantines and the Arabs were engaged Hostile_encounter in other conflicts until they were conquered Conquering by the Ottoman Turks in the 15th and 16th centuries , respectively .

The Colorado leader Venancio Flores launched Process_start the Liberating Crusade in 1863 , an insurrection aimed Aiming at toppling Bernardo Berro , who presided over a Colorado–Blanco coalition ( fusionist ) government .

The Ninth Crusade was a military expedition to the Holy Land under the command of Prince Edward , the future King Edward I of England , in 1271–1272 .

It was an extension of the Eighth Crusade and was the last of the Crusades to reach Arriving the Holy Land before the fall of Acre in 1291 brought Bringing an end to the permanent crusader presence there .

The Ninth Crusade saw several impressive victories for Edward over Baibars .

The Fifth Crusade ( 1217–1221 ) was an attempt by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Conquering the powerful Ayyubid state in Egypt .

During the course of the war , the Seljuq Turks and their allies attacked Attack the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt , capturing Conquering Jerusalem and catalyzing Process_start the call for the First Crusade .

Crusader assistance to the Byzantine Empire was mixed Cause_to_amalgamate with treachery and looting Robbery , although substantial gains Getting were made Getting in the First Crusade .

Later , the Byzantines were unable to extract Getting any more assistance , and the Fourth Crusade even led to Causation the sack of Constantinople .