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__//**The Crusades**//__ Crusades Timeline

The Crusades was a Holy war with more than one war. It started in 1095 and ended in 1270 with a total of eight crusades.


 * the first, 1095-1101;
 * the second, headed by Louis VII, 1145-47;
 * the third, conducted by [|Philip Augustus] and [|Richard Coeur-de-Lion], 1188-92;
 * the fourth, during which [|Constantinople] was taken, 1204;
 * the fifth, which included the conquest of [|Damietta], 1217;
 * the sixth, in which [|Frederick II] took part (1228-29); also [|Thibaud de Champagne] and [|Richard of Cornwall] (1239);
 * the seventh, led by [|St. Louis], 1249-52;
 * the eighth, also under [|St. Louis], 1270.