The Khwarezmian forces continue south after their …
Years: 1244 - 1244
October
The Khwarezmian forces continue south after their capture of Jerusalem, which has caused great alarm among both the Christian and the Muslim states.
Al-Mansur, the Emir of Homs and an-Nasir Dawud, ruling Kerak, have joined the Templars, the Hospitallers, the Teutonic Knights, the Order of Saint Lazarus and the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to take the field against the Egyptian Sultanate.
The Egyptian army is commanded by a Mamluk officer named Rukn al-Din Baibars.
Battle is joined on the morning October 17, with the Christian knights repeatedly charging the Egyptians and fighting up and down the line.
The Egyptian army holds its ground.
Locations
People
- An-Nasir Dawud
- Baibars
- Conrad IV of Germany
- Frederick II
- Henry I of Cyprus
- al-Adil II
- as-Salih Ayyub
- as-Salih Ismail
Groups
- Egyptians
- 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
- Palestine, Frankish (Outremer)
- 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
- Khwarezmians
