The Eighth Crusade was a campaign led by King Louis IX of France, later canonised as Saint Louis, in 1270. Louis, who had been captured in Egypt during the Seventh Crusade, sailed from Aigues-Mortes with an army in the summer of that year, but he did not go to the Holy Land. Instead the expedition landed at Tunis in North Africa, possibly in the hope of converting its ruler or of making it a base for attacking Egypt. The army was struck by disease in the summer heat, and the king himself died there in August. His brother Charles of Anjou took charge and negotiated a treaty with Tunis, and the army returned home without having achieved much.
Before and after
- 1270Rise of House of Valois
- from 1270 to 1975Ethiopian Empire
- 1270Glasses
- 1270Construction of Malbork Castle
- from 18 July 1270 to 30 October 1270Eighth Crusade
- from 1271 to 1272Ninth Crusade
- from 1271 to 1368Yuan dynasty
- from 1271 to 1295Marco Polo sets out for China
- from 3 March 1271 to 8 April 1271Fall of Krak des Chevaliers
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