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People: Leopold Gmelin
Topic: Jerusalem, Siege of
Location: Forchheim Bayern Germany

Jerusalem, Siege of

Years: 1187 - 1187

The Siege of Jerusalem is a siege on the city of Jerusalem that lasted from September 20 to October 2, 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrenders the city to Saladin.

Citizens wishing to leave pay a ransom.

The defeat of Jerusalem signals the end of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Europe respondsin 1189 by launching the Third Crusade led by Richard Lionheart, Philip Augustus, and Frederick Barbarossa separately.

"He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day."

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-Eastern Divan