The Ayyubid dynasty is riven by internal …
Years: 1239 - 1239
The Ayyubid dynasty is riven by internal quarrels following the death of Sultan al-Kamil in 1238.
The primary instigators are the slave army, the Mamluks (literally, “owned”), originally recruited as young boys from enslaved non-Arab people, first of Turkic and later of other ethnic groups, who are then converted to Islam, imported to serve various traditional Muslim rulers after training as soldiers and officials, and set free.
Locations
People
- Bohemond IV of Antioch
- Frederick II
- Henry I of Cyprus
- Hermann von Salza
- Pope Gregory IX
- Richard Filangieri
Groups
- Muslims, Sunni
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Holy Roman Empire
- Pisa, (first) Republic of
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
- Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem
- Templar, Knights (Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon)
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Damascus, Ayyubid Dynasty of
- Egypt, Ayyubid Sultanate of
- Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
- Cyprus, Kingdom of
- Sicily, Hohenstaufen Kingdom of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Guelphs and Ghibellines
- Holy Roman Empire-Papacy War of 1228-43
- Lombards, War of the
- Aftermath of the Sixth Crusade: Crusader-Turkish Wars of 1230-48
