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Topic: Jerusalem, Siege of
Location: Bethsaida Irbid Jordan

Jerusalem, Siege of

Years: 1187 - 1187

The Siege of Jerusalem is a siege on the city of Jerusalem that lasted from September 20 to October 2, 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrenders the city to Saladin.

Citizens wishing to leave pay a ransom.

The defeat of Jerusalem signals the end of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Europe respondsin 1189 by launching the Third Crusade led by Richard Lionheart, Philip Augustus, and Frederick Barbarossa separately.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)