The Sixth Crusade was led by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, who had promised several times to go on crusade and was excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for failing to do so. He eventually sailed to the Holy Land in 1228, with only a small army, and used diplomacy rather than force. In 1229 he agreed to a treaty with the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, al-Kamil, which gave the Christians control of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, with a corridor to the coast, while Muslims kept control of their holy sites on the Temple Mount. Frederick crowned himself king of Jerusalem in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The city was lost again in 1244.
Before and after
- 3 October 1226Death of Francis of Assisi
- 25 August 1227Death of Genghis Khan
- 1228Construction of Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
- from 1228 to 1243War of the Lombards
- from 1228 to 1229Sixth Crusade
- 1229Construction of Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital
- from 1230 to 1492Nasrid dynasty
- 1235Battle of Kirina
- from 1235 to 1670Mali Empire
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The era
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