Person1165 – 1223
Philip II of France
Also called: Philip Augustus
King of France (r. 1180–1223), “Augustus”, who went on the Third Crusade, left after Acre fell and seized England’s French lands
Where they went
2 related events
After Jerusalem fell, Emperor Frederick I, Philip II of France and Richard I of England went east; they retook Acre but not Jerusalem.
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After a siege of nearly two years Acre surrendered once Richard I and Philip II arrived; it then became the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
People who appear alongside
- Richard I of England1157 – 1199
King of England (r. 1189–1199), “the Lionheart”, who retook Acre in the Third Crusade and made the Treaty of Jaffa with Saladin
- Saladin1137 – 1193
Sultan and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty who united Egypt and Syria, won at Hattin in 1187 and retook Jerusalem
- Frederick I Barbarossa1122 – 1190
Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1155–1190) who led the Third Crusade overland and drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia
- Guy of Lusignan1194
King of Jerusalem (r. 1186–1192), captured by Saladin at Hattin and later lord of Cyprus
Themes this person appears in
- The Crusades1095 – 1291
From the Council of Clermont to the fall of Acre — two centuries of war between Latin Europe and the Islamic world over the Holy Land