Third Crusade

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Battle of Hattin

Fourth Crusade

Date

May 1189 – October 1192

Place

Levant and Anatolia

Outcome

Saracens allow unarmed Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land
Jerusalem remained under Saracen control

Combatants
Crusaders Knights Templar Teutonic Knights Knights Hospitalier Kingdom of England Kingdom of France Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Jerusalem Principality of Antioch County of Tripoli Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia	Saracens Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt and Syria Zengids Sultanate of Rum Nizari Ismaili state Byzantine Empire Empire of Cyprus Kingdom of Sicily

Commanders

Saladin

Al Mualim (1189–1191)
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad (1191–1192)

The Third Crusade (1189 – 1192) was an attempt by many of the leaders of medieval Christendoms to reconquer Jerusalem from Saladin. During this crusade, Christian forces, principally led by King Richard I of England, managed to reclaim Acre and engaged Saladin at Arsuf before coming to negotiate peaceful terms.

History[edit | edit source]

Richard I of England, the leader of the Crusaders, began his campaign by conquering Cyprus and then triumphed at the siege of Acre,^[1] after which three thousand captives were slaughtered by his knights.^[2] The Crusaders mobilized their forces to march south to Jaffa, and then on to their ultimate goal, Jerusalem. Saladin gathered his troops before the broken citadel of Arsuf, determined to halt the Crusaders and keep Jerusalem in Muslim hands.^[3]

At the Battle of Arsuf, Richard led the Crusader army against Saladin's forces. During this time, the Templars' Grand Master Robert de Sablé asked Richard to unite with Saladin against the Levantine Assassins, who were behind the murders of eight influential Crusaders and Saracens. Before de Sablé could complete his proposition, the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad arrived after fighting his way across the battlefield of Arsuf in search of the Grand Master.^[4]

Altaïr told King Richard of de Sablé's ulterior motives, which de Sablé denied. Richard decided that both men should fight, believing that God would protect the one who spoke the truth. After a long battle, Altaïr defeated de Sablé, who then revealed that Altaïr's Mentor, Al Mualim, was a Templar collaborator. With this information, Altaïr left for Masyaf to confront his Mentor, and Richard bid the Assassin a safe journey.^[4]

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Assassin's Creed (first appearance)
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
Assassin's Creed: Memories
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel
Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned only)
Assassin's Creed: Memories
Assassin's Creed: Rebellion – The Eagle's Shadow
Assassin's Creed: Fragments – The Blade of Aizu (mentioned only)
Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book
Echoes of History (mentioned only)
Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game (mentioned only)

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
↑ Assassin's Creed – Assassination (William of Montferrat)
↑ Assassin's Creed – Assassination (Robert de Sablé)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Assassin's Creed – Assassination II (Robert de Sablé)

Timeline

Before Common Era

Prehistory	Isu Era (War of Unification • Human-Isu War • Great Catastrophe) • Assassin-Templar War (ongoing)

13th–6th centuries BCE	Battle of Kadesh • Siege of Dapur • Trojan War • Second Messenian War • Battle of the Champions

5th century BCE	Greco-Persian Wars (Battle of Marathon • Battle of Thermopylae • Battle of Salamis • Battle of Plataia • Battle of the Eurymedon) • Peloponnesian War (Battle of Potidaea • Blockade of Megaris • Mytilenean revolt • Battle of Boeotia • Battle of Megaris • Battle for the Silver Islands • Battle of Pylos • Battle of Sphakteria • Battle of Amphipolis • Sicilian Expedition) • Plague of Athens

4th–2nd centuries BCE	Battle of the Hydaspes

1st century BCE	Caesar's civil war • Alexandrine war (Hunt for the Snake • Siege of Alexandria • Battle of the Nile) • Assassination of Julius Caesar • Liberators' civil war (Battle of Philippi) • War of Actium (Battle of Actium)

5th–13th centuries

5th–7th centuries	410 Sack of Rome

8th century	Abbasid Revolution • Battle of Talas • An Lushan Rebellion (Fall of Luoyang • Battle of Changshan • Mawei Station mutiny • Fall of Chang'an)

9th century	Islamic Golden Age (Fourth Fitna • Anarchy at Samarra • Zanj Rebellion) • Viking expansion (Lindisfarne raid • Siege of Paris • Great Heathen Army • Viking Capture of York • Battle of Reading • Battle of Ashdown • Battle of Bedwyn • Battle of Meretun • Assault on Grantebridge • Assault on Tamworth Fortress • Assault on Burgh Castle • Assault on Caustow Castle • Assault on Cyne Belle Castle • Assault on Anecastre • Assault on Rouecistre Fortress • Siege of Portcestre • Assault on Magnis Fortress • Battle of Cynwit • Battle of Chippenham • Battle of Edington • Assault on Armagh • Assault on Cashelore • Siege of Paris) • Unification of Norway (Assault on Kjotve's Fortress • Battle of Hafrsfjord)

10th century	Battle of Fýrisvellir

11th century	First Crusade (Siege of Jerusalem)

12th century	Second Crusade • Siege of Masyaf • Battle of Hattin • Third Crusade (Assault on Masyaf • Siege of Acre • Quest for the Chalice • Defense of Masyaf • Hunt for the Nine • Battle of Arsuf • Retaking of Masyaf)

13th century	Fourth Crusade • First Barons' War • Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' • Assassination of Genghis Khan • Decline of the Levantine Assassins • Medieval Inquisition • Fall of Masyaf • Sack of Baghdad • Mongol conquest of China (Siege of Diaoyu Castle) • Battle of Legnica • First War of Scottish Independence (English invasion of Scotland • Sack of Berwick • Action at Lanark)

14th–17th centuries

14th century	Persecution of the Templars • Hundred Years' War (Battle of Agincourt • Siege of Orléans • Battle of the Herrings • Battle of Jargeau • Battle of Meung-sur-Loire • Battle of Beaugency • Battle of Patay • March to Reims • Siege of Paris • Trial of Jeanne d'Arc) • Black Death

15th century	Renaissance • 1402 Chinese Assassin purge • Battle of Anghiari • Fall of Constantinople • Defense of Monteriggioni • Ōnin War • Assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza • Pazzi conspiracy • Reconquista (Mission to Aragon • Granada War) • Venetian conspiracy • Battle of Forlì • Age of Discovery • Italian Wars (Bonfire of the Vanities) • Ottoman–Venetian War • Confrontation in the Vatican

16th century	Siege of Monteriggioni • Liberation of Rome (Skirmish in the Campagna District) • Search for Cesare Borgia (Attack on Valencia • Siege of Viana) • Italian Wars (War of the League of Cambrai (Battle of Agnadello) • Assassination of Niccolò di Pitigliano) • Little Judgment Day • Prince of Anhua rebellion • Ottoman Civil War (Attack on Prince Suleiman) • Riot at the Harbor of Theodosius • Prince of Ning rebellion • Destruction of the Great Chain • Fight for the Masyaf Keys • Age of Discovery (Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (Night of Sorrows) • Battle of Mactan • Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (Siege of Cuzco)) • Assassin expedition to the Mekong • Great Rites Controversy • 1526 Macau fires • 1527 Sack of Rome • Roman Inquisition • Battle of Gogunda • Sengoku period (Battle of Okehazama • Siege of Kanegasaki • Battle of Anegawa • Siege of Mount Hiei • Ishiyama Hongan-ji War • Tenshō Iga War • Honnō-ji incident • Imjin War • Battle of Sekigahara)

17th century	Labourd witch-hunt of 1609 • Siege of Osaka • English Civil War • Battle of Lowestoft • Great Fire of London • Glorious Revolution • Salem witch trials • Great Recoinage of 1696

18th century

1701–1730	War of the Spanish Succession • Golden Age of Piracy (Sinking of the Treasure Fleet • Attacks on Tulum • Siege of Charles-Towne • Blockade of Nassau • Attack on Ocracoke) • 1720s Chinese Assassin purge • Shimazu clan civil war • 1725 Manila riot • Battle of Sulu • Battle of the Strait of Malacca

1731–1769	Maroon Rebellion • French Geodesic Mission • War of the Austrian Succession (Siege of Bergen op Zoom) • 1745 Siege of Louisbourg • 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake • 1755 Lisbon earthquake • Seven Years' War (Albany Congress • Battle of Fort Necessity • Braddock Expedition (Battle of the Monongahela) • Siege of Fort William Henry • Siege of Louisbourg • Battle of Quiberon Bay • Battle of Labrador) • Colonial Assassin purge • Louisiana Rebellion

1770–1785	American Revolution (Boston Massacre • Boston Tea Party) and American Revolutionary War (Battles of Lexington and Concord • Siege of Boston • Battle of Bunker Hill • Great Fire of New York • Conway Cabal • Sullivan Expedition • Battle of Monmouth • Battle of Rhode Island • Battle of West Point • Battle of the Chesapeake • Attack on Fort George • Siege of Yorktown)

1786–1800	French Revolution (Estates-General of 1789 • Paris Commune (1789–1795) • Storming of the Bastille • Great Fear • Women's March on Versailles • Flight to Varennes • 10 August • September Massacres • Execution of Louis XVI • Reign of Terror • Festival of the Supreme Being • Thermidorian Reaction • Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise) • Haitian Revolution • St. Clair's Defeat • French Revolutionary Wars (Siege of Toulon • 13 Vendémiaire)

19th–21st centuries

19th century	Napoleonic Wars (Battle of Ulm) • Trienio Liberal • First Anglo-Afghan War (1842 retreat from Kabul) • Mexican-American War • California Gold Rush • Great Exhibition • Assassination attempt on Franz Joseph I of Austria • Crimean War (Battle of Balaclava) • Orsini affair • American Civil War (1863 New York City draft riots) • Battle of Camarón • Icarus affair • Boshin War (Battle of Toba–Fushimi • Battle of Aizu) • Liberation of London • Franco-Prussian War • Paris Commune (1871) • Assassination of Alexander II of Russia • Borki train disaster • Whitechapel murders

20th century	Modern times • Tunguska explosion • World War I (Battle of Mons • Christmas truce) • Russian Revolution (Execution of the Romanov family • Kazan Operation) • Irish War of Independence • Red Scare (Palmer Raids) • Shanghai massacre of 1927 • Invergordon Mutiny • Spanish Civil War • World War II (The Blitz • Operation Weserübung • Operation Sealion • Operation Barbarossa • Operation Silver Fox • Manhattan Project • Second Battle of El Alamein • Normandy landings • Japanese invasion of Burma • Battle of Tinian • Battle for Brest • Yalta Conference) • Philadelphia Project • Bretton Woods Conference • Cold War (1954 Guatemalan coup d'état • Vietnam War • Assassination of John F. Kennedy • Apollo 11 • 1973 Chilean coup d'état • Operation Gardel • Iranian Revolution • Dissolution of the Soviet Union)

21st century	Great Purge • War on Terror (Iraq War) • Beagle 2 launch • Deepwater Horizon oil spill • 2011 Egyptian revolution • DIA satellite accident • Project Siren • Second Disaster • 2013 Egyptian coup d'état • Chicago incident • Raids on the Aerie • Mission to Egypt • Resurrection Day • Search for the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus • Brexit • COVID-19 pandemic • Myanmar civil war

Assassin's Creed

Characters

Assassins	Desmond Miles • Lucy Stillman • Subject 16 \| Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad • Al Mualim • Malik Al-Sayf • Kadar Al-Sayf • Abbas Sofian • Rauf • Jabal • Jamal • Damascus bureau leader

Templars	Warren Vidic • Alan Rikkin • David Kilkerman • Henry Liman • Nancy Nilop \| Masun • Tamir • Garnier de Naplouse • Talal • Abu'l Nuqoud • William of Montferrat • Majd Addin • Jubair al Hakim • Sibrand • Maria Thorpe • Robert de Sablé

Others	Jane Birkam • Leila Marino \| Richard I • Saladin

Factions

Assassins (Levantine Brotherhood) • Templars (Abstergo | Knights Templar) | Crusaders (Knights Templar • Knights Hospitalier • Knights Teutonic) • Saracens

Locations

Abstergo laboratory | Solomon's Temple • Masyaf • Damascus • Acre • Jerusalem • Arsuf • Kingdom • Assassin bureau

Events

Third Crusade (Defense of Masyaf • Hunt for the Nine • Battle of Arsuf • Retaking of Masyaf)

Terms and concepts

Achievements • Animus (Genetic memory • Glitches • Memories • Synchronization) • Blending • Cryptic Messages • Eagle Vision • Eavesdropping • Emails (Warren Vidic • Lucy Stillman) • Feathers • Flags • Horses • Informers • Interrogation • Investigation • Leap of Faith • Pickpocketing • Pieces of Eden (Apple of Eden) • Ranks • Scholars • Save Citizen • Social stealth • Thugs • Viewpoints • Vigilantes

Weapons and tools

Hidden Blade • Fists • Short blades • Swords • Throwing knives

Assassin's Creed: Memories

Characters

Assassins	Ratonhnhaké:ton • Achilles Davenport • Aveline de Grandpré \| Edward Kenway • Ah Tabai • Mary Read • Adéwalé \| Hattori Hanzō • Yamauchi Taka • Liu Yan • Yamauchi Kazutoyo • Hattori Masanari • Mogami Yoshiaki \| Ezio Auditore da Firenze • Francesco Vecellio • La Volpe • Bartolomeo d'Alviano • Niccolò Machiavelli \| Qulan Gal • Nergüi • Darim Ibn-La'Ahad • Marco Polo • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad • Maria Thorpe \| Malik Al-Sayf • Al Mualim • William of Cassingham • Robert Fitzwalter • Niccolò Polo • Jabal

Templars	Haytham Kenway • William Johnson • Benjamin Church • Charles Lee • John Pitcairn • Thomas Hickey \| Benjamin Hornigold • Laureano de Torres y Ayala • Julien du Casse \| Mochizuki Chiyome • Alessandro Valignano • Uesugi Kenshin \| Charles de la Motte • Emilio Barbarigo • Juan Borgia the Elder • Cesare Borgia • Lucrezia Borgia • Rocco Tiepolo \| Tamir • Sibrand • Robert de Sablé • Majd Addin • Jacques de Molay • Abu'l Nuqoud

Others	Ashley Gaudreau \| Israel Putnam • George Washington • David Walston \| Anne Bonny • El Tiburón • Bartholomew Roberts • Charles Vane • Jack Rackham • Edward Thatch • Laurens Prins • Peter Chamberlaine • William Kidd \| Chaya Shirōjirō Kiyonobu • Ii Naomasa • Shima Sakon • Mōri Motonari • Oda Nobunaga • Sakai Tadatsugu • Honda Tadakatsu • Sakakibara Yasumasa • Date Masamune \| Lorenzo de' Medici • Leonardo da Vinci \| Ögedei Khan • Hülegü Khan • Jochi Khan • Alexander Nevsky • Genghis Khan • Kublai Khan • Attar of Nishapur • Subutai \| Adha

Factions

Locations

Events

Terms and concepts

Cards | Animus (Genetic memory • Memories) • Assassination targets • Guards • Piece of Eden (Chalice • Swords of Eden)

Assassin's Creed: Rebellion

Characters

Assassins

Legendary	Evie Frye • Jacob Frye \| Arno Dorian \| Ratonhnhaké:ton \| Adéwalé • Edward Kenway • Mary Read \| Fujibayashi Naoe • Yasuke \| Domingo de la Torre • Ezio Auditore da Firenze • Girolamo da Lucca • Ishak Pasha • Jariya al-Zakiyya • Jean Delacroix • Lupo Gallego • María • Najma Alayza • Niccolò Machiavelli • Rodrigo de Mendoza • Shao Jun \| Al Mualim • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad \| Basim ibn Ishaq \| Aya of Alexandria • Bayek \| Darius • Kassandra

Epic	Aleksei Zima • Álvaro de Espinosa • Baltasar de León • Bartolomé Ortiz • Claudia Auditore da Firenze • Corvo Antonelli • Flora de la Cruz • Horacio de Heredia • Jaime del Rada • La Volpe • Lucas Bellini • Luciano Cavazza • Mario Auditore • Murat Bin Husn • Muza ben Abel Gazan • Perina di Bastian • Rosa Gallego • Shakir al-Zahid • Yusuf Tazim \| Malik Al-Sayf • Maria Thorpe \| Kensa

Rare	Jock MacRae \| Chimalmat \| Aguilar de Nerha • Angela Carillo • Bartolomeo d'Alviano • Beatriz de Navarrete • Faris al-Saffar • Georgios Cardoso • Gershon Deloya • Inigo Montañés • Jorge Díaz • Luis Chico • Luisa Gallego • Magdalena Suárez • Mayya al-Dabbaj • Qasim al-Dani • Sayyid al-Abbas • Teodora Contanto • Tereysa de Lyaño \| Hytham

Common	Heloise • Irekanni • Jibral Bin Said \| Alonso Pinto • Andrea Cortés • Constanza Ramos • Elena Niccolini • Gaspar Donoso • Grazia • Hamid al-Jasur • Mateo Galan • Máximo Barrosa • Tariq al-Nasr • Tosca Yayal-Ricci • Ysabel Lomelin

Diego de Alvarado

Templars

Bonacolto Contarini • Bordingas • Cadavid • Chacon • del Salto • Duran • Garza • Gustavo Ramírez • Ojeda • Ordóñez • Pedrosa • Tomás de Torquemada • Ubayd Alayza | William of Montferrat

Others

Legendary	Edward Thatch \| Leonardo da Vinci \| Eivor \| Cleopatra \| Alexios • Hippokrates • Leonidas I of Sparta • Myrrine

Epic	Lorenzo de' Medici \| Gunnar • Randvi • Sigurd Styrbjornsson \| Apollodorus of Sicily \| Alkibiades • Natakas • Hipparkhia • Sokrates • Xenia

Rare	Ivo Jolicoeur • Jacquotte Jolicoeur \| Jora Blood-Shoulder • Valka

Common	Bogi Three-Fingers • Dalla Aegirsdottir • Guthlaugr Stone-Eye

3P3EC74R • Player Admin \| Blount • Cliff • Garnet • Groggy Bill • Stewart \| Alfonso Cavallero • Armilia Guardato • Cristoval de Merlo • Diego de Burgos • Diego de Burgos' confessor • Ferdinand II of Aragon • Gabriel Dominico • Garcia Galindo • Hassan • Il Bruto • Isabella I of Castile • Muhammad XII of Granada • Piero \| Isembart \| Gorm Kjotvesson • Hrolfr Kjotvesson • Kjotve the Cruel \| Menkhtu \| Aetius • Erastos • Eugenius • Eustace • Heraclius • Thaddeus

Factions

Assassins (Caribbean Brotherhood | Spanish Brotherhood • Italian Brotherhood • Ottoman Brotherhood | Levantine Brotherhood) • Templars (Spanish Rite • Italian Rite | Knights Templar | Order of the Ancients) • British Empire (British Army • British Navy) | Dominican Order • Cien Ojos • Lobos Silenciosos • Spanish Inquisition (Dogs of the Lord) | Vikings (Raven Clan • Wolf Clan) | Sect of the Ibis Reborn

Locations

Jamaica (Kingston) • The Bahamas | Spain (Aragon • Ávila • Burgos • Casas-Ibáñez • Castile • Jaén • Granada • León • Madrid • Murcia • Oviedo • Sahagún • Salamanca • Santiago de Compostela • Saragossa • Segovia • Sierra de Cazorla • Toledo • Valencia) • Italy (Florence • Naples) | Levant (Acre) | Norway (Rygjafylke) | Egypt (Haueris Nome • White Desert • Giza) | Greece (Argolis • Arkadia • Attika • Boeotia • Korinthia • Makedonia • Megaris)

Events

War of the Spanish Succession • Golden Age of Piracy | Reconquista (Granada War) | Third Crusade (Hunt for the Nine) | Viking expansion | Peloponnesian War

Terms and concepts

Achievements • Aguilar de Nerha's journal • Crafting • Genetic memory • Helix Credits • Helix Rift Events • Leap of Faith • Memories • Pieces of Eden (Apple of Eden • Staff of Eden) • Rebellion • Treasure chests

Helix Rift Events

DPS All-Stars • Swift Assassination • Freerunner Frenzy • Stealthy Operations | Horacio's Retribution • The Art of the Heist • The Ottoman Connection • A War in the Shadows • Kinslayer • Spears for Hire • For Democracy! • The Mask of the Ibis • The Eagle's Shadow • The Hunter's Hounds • Dead Men's Gold • The Ravens' Wound • Echoes Through the Animus

Campaigns

Norway, 872 CE • Caribbean Sea, 1713 CE • Naples, 1499 CE

Assassin's Creed: Escape Room Puzzle Book

Characters

Assassins	Alera • Colm • Joey \| Giulia \| Al Mualim • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad • Faisal • Rafee \| Bayek • Khepri • Nashwa

Templars / Order of the Ancients	The Hideout \| Stowe \| Habibah \| Ianthe

Isu	Vejovis

Others	Leonardo da Vinci \| Alva • Einar • Eivor Varinsdottir \| Cadmus • Markos