Cyprus proved to be a vital source of supplies throughout the Third Crusade and would remain a Christian outpost in the Middle East for the following four centuries. King Guy of Jerusalem had been ...
The struggle to capture Acre formed the opening military passage of the Third Crusade in Palestine ... whose massive losses through battle, malnutrition and disease were regularly replaced by new ...
The Albigensian Crusade was a war launched by the papacy to combat Cathar ... Credit: Public Domain In 1179, the Third Lateran Council denounced “the heretics of Gascony, Albigensians, the Toulouse ...