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Louis IX of France

Also called: Saint Louis

King of France (r. 1226–1270), “Saint Louis”, captured in Egypt on the Seventh Crusade and died of disease at Tunis on the Eighth

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  1. 1
    1248 – 1254Seventh Crusadecommander

    Louis IX of France invaded Egypt and took Damietta but was crushed at Mansurah and captured; he was released for a ransom.

  2. 2
    1270Eighth Crusadecommander

    Louis IX set out again and attacked Tunis in North Africa, but disease swept his camp, the king died and the crusade ended.

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  • 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