The Crusader army had proceeded after the …
Years: 1192 - 1192
January
The Crusader army had proceeded after the Battle of Arsuf to Jaffa, which the Crusaders had taken and fortified on September 7, 1191 Jaffa, they hope, will be the base of operations in a drive to reconquer Jerusalem itself.
Sporadic negotiations between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin had been taken up as the winter of 1191–1192 approached, though without any immediate result.
The crusader army in November of 1191 had advanced inland towards Jerusalem.
Saladin on December 12 had been forced by pressure from his emirs to disband the greater part of his army.
Richard, learning this, had pushed his army forward, spending Christmas at Latrun.
The army then marched to Beit Nuba, only twelve miles from Jerusalem.
Muslim morale in Jerusalem is so low that the arrival of the Crusaders would probably have caused the city to fall quickly.
The weather has been appallingly bad, however cold with heavy rain and hailstorms; this, combined with the fear that the Crusader army, if it besieged Jerusalem, might be trapped by a relieving force, prompts the decision to retreat to the coast.
Locations
People
- Al-Adil I
- Conrad of Montferrat
- Guy of Lusignan
- Henry II, Count of Champagne
- Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- Humphrey IV of Toron
- Isabella I of Jerusalem
- Pope Celestine III
- Pope Innocent III
- Richard I of England
- Saladin
Groups
- Arab people
- Kurdish people
- Muslims, Sunni
- Syrian people
- Flemish people
- Turkmen people
- Cyprus, East Roman (Byzantine)
- French people (Latins)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Assassins
- Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
- Palestine, Frankish (Outremer)
- Italians (Latins)
- Anglo-Normans
- Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem
- Templar, Knights (Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon)
- England, (Plantagenet, Angevin) Kingdom 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
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Years: 1192 - 1192
January
Locations
People
- Al-Adil I
- Conrad of Montferrat
- Guy of Lusignan
- Henry II, Count of Champagne
- Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- Humphrey IV of Toron
- Isabella I of Jerusalem
- Pope Celestine III
- Pope Innocent III
- Richard I of England
- Saladin
Groups
- Arab people
- Kurdish people
- Muslims, Sunni
- Syrian people
- Flemish people
- Turkmen people
- Cyprus, East Roman (Byzantine)
- French people (Latins)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Assassins
- Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
- Palestine, Frankish (Outremer)
- Italians (Latins)
- Anglo-Normans
- Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem
- Templar, Knights (Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon)
- England, (Plantagenet, Angevin) Kingdom 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
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Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions