History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 53 the Third Crusade Roman numeral 1.

Hello again.

Last week we saw a dramatic milestone take place in the history of the Crusades as Jerusalem fell to Saladin's

forces.

The fall of the Holy City sparked Europe into action and the assistance that the residents of the

Crusade estates had been requesting for a while in the form of another

crusade will finally take place.

This week we start to set the scene for the third crusade.

Right, so first let's deal with the Holy Land.

What was happening in the Holy Land after the fall of Jerusalem?

Well, although the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Saladin was largely bloodless, to the Latin Christians

who lived there it was still a devastating traumatic event.

Latin Christians had been present in the Holy Land since the First Crusade, some 88 years earlier.

This meant that for many Latin Christians, they had called the Holy Land home for three generations.

Upprooted suddenly from the land in which their parents and their grandparents had been born,

the roads across the kingdom of Jerusalem were filled with

traumatized homeless, anxious Latin Christian refugees.

The city of Jerusalem had been effectively purged of Latin Christians.

As we saw last week, Sullidin required Latin Christian residents of the city to pay a ransom before they could leave the city.

Those who couldn't pay were sold into slavery.

Balian of Iblin negotiated payment for 7,000 of the city's poorest residents,

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