Mini Timeline

1009		Church of the Holy Sepulche destroyed
		The unstable sixth Caliph of Egypt, Al-Hakim, ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulche in Jerusalem.
1071 - 1085		Turks conquer Syria, Jerusalem and parts of Palestine
		The Seljuk Turks conquer Syria, Jerusalem and parts of Palestine.
1096	Qtr 1	Peter the Hermit's (or People's) Crusade
		Following Pope Urban's speech at Clermont Peter the Hermit, a simple man with a powerful ability to move people by his words, started preaching for Christians to help their fellow Christians in the East. He started to gain a large number of followers eager to go to Jerusalem with promises of absolution and freedom from a life of hunger and deprevation. His followers were poor, not prepared for the journey and not armed.
1099	Jul 15	Crusaders take Jerusalem
		The Crusaders take Jerusalem and Godfrey of Bouillon becomes King of Jerusalem.
	Aug 12	Battle of Ascalon
		The last battle of the First Crusade was fourght between the Christians and Muslims at Ascalon. Lead by Godfrey of Bouillon, the king of Jerusalem, the heavily out-numbered Christian army used their heavy armour to good affect. The Muslim army consisted mainly of Egyptions intent of driving the Christians out of Jerusalem.
1100	Jul 18	Godfrey of Bouillon dies
		Godfrey of Bouillon died just a year after the crusaders had captured Jerusalem. Agreeing who should succeed Godfrey as ruler of Jerusalem was not easy. The head of the Church in Jerusalem, Dagobert of Pisa, claimed that the Church itself should rule and as he was its representative he should have the job. Godfrey's brother, Baldwin of Edessa, had other ideas and travelled to Jerusalem with an army to claim the throne.
	Dec 25	Baldwin I becomes king of Jerusalem
		Supported by an army of over a thousand men, Baldwin claimed the throne of Jerusalem. Baldwin of Edessa was Godfrey's brother and he claimed the throne as his heritage. Baldwin was crowned on Christmas Day at Bethlehem.
1113		Knights Hospitallers Recognised
		A Papal Bull recognised and named the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem as an independent religious order.
1118		Baldwin II becomes King of Jerusalem
		Baldwin II became King of Jerusalem following in his cousin's footsteps.
1119		Knights Templar order founded in Jerusalem
		Knights Templar order founded in Jerusalem, by Hugues de Payen.
		Knights Templar in Jerusalem
		The Knights Templars travelled to the Holy Lands twenty years after Jerusalem was captured by European powers.
1187	Jul 3	Army of Jerusalem defeated
		The army of Jerusalem was beaten by Turkish forces. Guy of Lusignan was King of Jerusalem at this time. All Knights Templars and Hospitallers who survived the battle were executed afterwards.
	Oct 2	Jerusalem falls to the Muslims
		The al-Asqu mosque was returned to Islam. The Muslims allowed four Christian Priests to hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulche. This was opposed to the first Crusaders who since they first captured the city in 1099 had treated Jerusalem as theirs alone. The Muslim leader was Al-Malik al-Nasir Salad ed-Din Yusuf (Saladin).
1191	Apr 20	Philippe V arrives in Acre
		Philippe V landed in Acre in an attempt to remove Guy of Lusignan as the King of Jerusalem, and replace him with Conrad of Montferrat.
	May 11	Meeting in Limassol
		Richard met Guy of Lusignan (King of Jerusalem), Geoffrey (Richard's brother), Bohemund (Prince of Antioch), Raymond (Count of Tripoli), Humphrey of Toron and other knights to discuss the attempt by Philippe V of France to replace Guy of Lusignan with Conrad of Monferrat as the King of Jerusalem.
1228 - 1229		The Sixth Crusade (1228-9)
		The Sixth Crusade was won with diplomacy by Frederick II, who had married the heiress of Jerusalem in 1225. He went to the East to claim his right to the throne, and taking advantage of internal disputes between the Sultan's family members, concluded the Treaty of Jaffa, which gave Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth back to the Christians.
1244	Aug	Jerusalem falls.
		With the fall of Jerusalem and the crushing defeat of the Christian armies at Gaza, Louis IX took the cross and prepared for a Crusade. (It took him four years to set sail).
1247		Henry receives a relic
		Henry received a relic from the patriarch of Jerusalem consisting of a portion of the blood of Christ in a crystal vase. Henry walked with the vase in his hands clothed in a course robe from the treasury in St. Paul's to the church of Westminster where mass was said. He was assisted by attendants on both sides in case he slipped and dropped the vase.
1270	Sep 14	Relic given to Hailes Abbey
		A phial containing the blood of Jesus was presented to abbey of Hailes by the son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall. The phial had been guarenteed by the Patriarch of Jerusalem and had been bought from the Count of Flanders in 1267. A section of the abbey was rebuilt to hold the relic, and it was held in a purpose built shrine. A similar relic had been presented to the King, Henry III several years before in 1247.