The Seventh And Eighth Crusade
The seventh crusade was lead by King Louis IX of France. He was later named a saint because he built a church in Paris called Sainte Chapelle . This cathedral was built to house relics that Louis IX collected from the Holy Land. During the Crusades, European Christians tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims from the 11th century to the 16th. Louis had a great devotion to God. When the Mamluks took over Jerusalem in 1244 AD, King Louis called for a crusade. After King Louis received financing from the church for the crusade he sailed to Cyprus. When King Louis was 56 years old he decided to attempt another crusade. This time he wanted to begin the crusade from a base in Tunis, North Africa. But when the Bubonic Plague struck his camp, Louis was one of the ones affected and he died. This disease was basically serious diarrhea. This had ended the eighth crusade. But some people say since there was still trade through the northern part of Africa, it wasn’t a total loss.
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Sainte Chapelle.
From there he attacked and conquered Damietta in Egypt, a place that caused a lot of trouble in the Fifth Cusade. The Mamluks were very weak and the could not stop him. After conquering Damietta, he used it as a base for his troops to attack Cairo. The Mamluks defeated when he attacked Cairo and took him prisoner. The French had to pay a lot of gold to get him back.
What the crusades led to was a minimum amount of accomplishment and a whole lot of blood shed. There were many people who died trying to capture the holy land. The crusades was a huge part in out history.
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Pope Gregory II Councils with his Followers
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