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The Battle of Khan House is a battle that took place on 13 November 1239 on the Al-Nasser Hill located west of the Hanan House, between Crusader knights and the forces of the late Sultan of Egypt. This battle was the culmination of a crusade of French knights known as the Crusade of the Barons and ended in the defeat of the Crusader army.

background

During the first half of the thirteenth century, the Crusader kingdom struggled to exist against enemies from the outside – the successors of the A-din and enemies from them – a political conflict between the Barons and the Iblin House and Frederick II, the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on the control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, while Pope Gregory IX did not even lay his hand in a success. This situation pushed the Second Kingdom of Jerusalem (also known as the Kingdom of Accreditation) to the Hebrews of Damascus, crusaders fought in the shadows of their wrath in the judgment and in Cyprus, and although the Crusader state had won, as a result of Islamic conflicts, for a short period of peace (relative) that lasted until 1243, internally it was very weakened and the bonds that held the government. During this period, her administrative mechanism was actually silent, and the Crusader state was lost in military and political maneuverability, and the military corridors began.

The Crusader state

With the Emperor Frederick II of the Land of Israel, and after the signing of an agreement to the caliphate between the Emperor and the Egyptian Sultan to a house of Job to the king of Al-Asmmel, the borders of the Crusader state were established along the coastline from Lebanon to Jaffa and from there in a narrow corridor that connected to Jerusalem and a Bethlehem house whose ownership was divided between Muslims and Christians.
This agreement, which sparked controversy at the time of its signing, and to this day, the divisions of opinion on its essence and value, along with a chain of intrigues and conflicts in the lobbying attempts of the Crusader state, temporarily secured the continued existence of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which the great threat to the existence of a unified Muslim force was temporarily removed.

The Crusade of the Barons

Despite the recognition of the partition of Jerusalem, Al-Azeul, the Pope continued to call for a crusade to redeem the Land of Israel from Islam. Indeed, in 1237, the initiative for skin and rods began, and it was determined that in the summer of 1239 the Crusade to the Holy Land began. During the years of organized and propaganda, riots were carried out, in which Jews were murdered living in the areas of ANZAC, and Bernanian. After a renewed cycle of intrigues and confrontations between the Emperor and the Pope, the Crusade from the port of Marseille.

Give him a mutter.

The crusade of the Barons consisted of 1,500 French nobles, including the first of them from Campan and Berber, who was also king of Amonaura according to marriage and was also known to have written a speech.
Thibaut de Champagne was a famous figure in France and was known as the poet (French: Thibaut le Chansonnier) but also unbelief and political coups who stained his name and made his class doubt the purity of his origin, to mock his appearance, and to slander his personality, during this political period, and to save his name from the Duchy of France.

Preparation for the Battle

On 1 September 1239, the Crusader army of the Barons' Crusade landed and parked outside the city walls. In the camp, discussions were conducted regarding future military moves and possible ways of action.

After consulting with the seniors of the Crusaders in the Land of Israel – the heads of the local Latin Church and the heads of the military orders were decided to move south and narrow Ashkelon and then rise north and attack Damascus.

This program, which was prepared against two improvised princes – Sultan of Egypt on the one hand and Damascus, who was at the time headed by an anti-Egyptian coalition, managed to unite the opposing princes against the Crusaders. Program program