Launched in response to the fall of Jerusalem, the Third Crusade drew three kings and saw Frederick Barbarossa lead a large force overland through Byzantine territory, where Isaac II's mishandling of the passage earned the empire widespread condemnation in the West. Barbarossa drowned before reaching the Holy Land, his army dissolved, and the crusade failed to retake Jerusalem. The blame was laid largely on Byzantium, deepening the mutual suspicion between East and West that would contribute to the catastrophe of the Fourth Crusade.
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Episode 15 (4 mentions)
Launched after the fall of Jerusalem, the Third Crusade saw three kings mobilize. Isaac II disastrously mishandled Frederick Barbarossa's overland march through Byzantine territory, earning him the enmity of Europe. Barbarossa drowned before reaching the Holy Land and his army dissolved; the crusade failed to retake Jerusalem, and Byzantium was made the scapegoat in the West.
“When the third commander sent also decided to rebel,”
“It was well known that when Richard the Lion-Hearted had left the Holy Land at the end of the Third Crusade,”
“it was less than a third of the expected numbers,”
Episode 17 (1 mention)
Mentioned alongside the Second Crusade as a campaign whose failure was attributed by the West to Byzantine treachery, further poisoning East-West relations in the lead-up to the Fourth Crusade.
“This craven spirit was widely blamed in the West for the betrayal of the first and the failure of the second and third crusades”
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