Another group of Mamluks under Mansur takes …
Years: 1266 - 1266
Another group of Mamluks under Mansur takes the capital of Sis.
The pillage lasts twenty days, and forty thousand Armenians are made prisoners.
When Hethum I returns with Mongol troops, the country is already devastated.
The king has to negotiate the return of his son Leo by paying a large quantity of money, handing over several fortresses, and accepting to intercede with the Mongol ruler Abaqa Khan in order to have one of Baibars's relatives freed.
Locations
People
Groups
- Armenian people
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
- Tripoli, County of
- Templar, Knights (Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon)
- Mongols
- Jaffa and Ascalon, County of
- Cyprus, Kingdom of
- Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, or Little Armenia
- Mongol Empire
- Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Bahri Sultanate of
- Palestine, Mamluk
- Il-khanate
