Saladin reclaimed Jerusalem from the Crusaders and fought with Richard the Lionheart to establish the Ayyubid Dynasty. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Defending Jerusalem - And so we come to the negotiations between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, where some of the best-known stories of the Crusades will play out. Starting with a mass ...

King Richard I and King Phillip II. So he will... do nothing! Let's go on a journey together folks and watch how Saladin begins to lose power through a series of mistakes and ill-considered gift ...

The Crusaders established a kingdom around Jerusalem. Saladin and Richard are believed to have shown great respect for each other as leaders, yet they never met. Richard wrote to Saladin during ...

Witness the struggle of wills between Richard the Lionheart, King of England, and Sultan Saladin ibn Ayyub, spearhead of the Islamic domain and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Command war-honed ...

Walter Scott’s “The Talisman”, in which a disguised Saladin heals an ailing Richard the Lionheart, is also bunk. The two men never met. And Saladin’s conquests owed more to artifice and ...

In 1187, Crusaders led by Richard I had captured around 3,000 Muslim prisoners. Negotiators couldn’t find agreement over the terms for their release between Saladin and Richard. Baha-Ed-Din ...