Siege of Damietta (1249)

Part of the Seventh Crusade

Siege of Damietta

Part of Seventh Crusade

Miniature from the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris (c. 1255)
| Date| 6 June 1249

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Location|

Damietta, Ayyubid Sultanate

Result|

Crusader strategic victory

* Egyptian retreat

Belligerents

* Kingdom of France
* Knights Templar
* Knights Hospitaller

|  Ayyubid Sultanate
Commanders and leaders

* Louis IX of France
* Guillaume de Sonnac
* Jean de Ronay

|  Emir Fahreddin
Strength
15,000[1] (including 3,000 knights)[2]
36 ships[2]|  unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown|  unknown
24 trebuchets captured

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Seventh Crusade

* Damietta
* Mansurah
* Fariskur

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Crusades: battles in the Levant (1096–1303)

First Crusade

* Xerigordos
* Civetot
* Nicaea
* 1st Dorylaeum
* 1st Antioch
* Samosata
* 2nd Antioch
* Ma'arra
* Arqa
* 1st Jerusalem
* 1st Ascalon

Period post-First Crusade

* Arsuf
* Melitene
* Mersivan
* 1st Heraclea
* 2nd Heraclea
* 1st Ramla
* 2nd Ramla
* 1st Tripoli
* 1st Acre
* Harran
* 3rd Ramla
* Artah
* Beirut
* Sidon
* 1st Shaizar
* Al-Sannabra
* Sarmin
* Ager Sanguinis
* Hab
* Jaffa and Tyre
* Yibneh
* 1st Aleppo
* Azaz
* Marj al-Saffar
* al-Atharib
* Rafaniyya
* Antioch
* Qinnasrin
* Ba'rin
* 2nd Aleppo
* 2nd Shaizar
* Edessa 1144
* Edessa 1146
* Bosra

Second Crusade

* 1st Constantinople
* 2nd Dorylaeum
* Ephesus
* Meander Valley
* Mount Cadmus
* Damascus

Period post-Second Crusade

* Inab
* Aintab
* 2nd Ascalon
* Lake Huleh
* Butaiha
* al-Buqaia
* Harim
* 1st Bilbeis
* al-Babein
* 2nd Bilbeis
* 1st Damietta
* Alexandria
* Montgisard
* Banias
* Marj Ayyun
* Jacob's Ford
* Red Sea
* 1st Belvoir Castle
* Al-Fule
* Kerak
* Cresson
* Hattin
* 2nd Jerusalem
* 3rd Tyre
* 2nd Belvoir Castle
* Laodicea
* Sahyun
* Al-Shughur
* Bourzey
* Safed

Third Crusade

* Acre and Tyre
* Philomelion
* Iconium
* 1st Arsuf
* Jaffa

Fourth Crusade

* Zara
* 2nd Constantinople
* 3rd Constantinople

Fifth Crusade

* 2nd Damietta
* 1st Fariskur
* 1st Mansurah

Sixth Crusade and aftermath

* Gaza
* 3rd Jerusalem
* Forbie

Seventh Crusade

* 3rd Damietta
* 2nd Mansurah
* 2nd Fariskur

End of the Crusader states in the Levant

* 2nd Arsuf
* Caesarea
* Haifa
* Safed
* 2nd Antioch
* Eighth Crusade
* Krak des Chevaliers
* 2nd Tripoli
* Lord Edward's Crusade
* Homs
* Margat
* 3rd Tripoli
* 2nd Acre
* Ruad

The siege of Damietta occurred in 1249 and was part of the Seventh Crusade.

Louis IX of France landed at Damietta in 1249. Egypt would, Louis thought, provide a base from which to attack Jerusalem, and its wealth and supply of grain would keep the crusaders fed and equipped.

On 6 June Damietta was taken with little resistance from the Egyptians, who withdrew further up the Nile. Louis was able to build a stockade for the whole Crusade camp with the wood from 24 captured Egyptian trebuchets. The flooding of the Nile had not been taken into account, however, and it soon grounded Louis and his army at Damietta for six months, where the knights sat back and enjoyed the spoils of war. Louis ignored the agreement made during the Fifth Crusade that Damietta should be given to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, now a rump state in Acre, but he did set up an archbishopric there (under the authority of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem) and used the city as a base to direct military operations against the Muslims of Syria.

## Citations[edit]

1. ^ A. Konstam, Historical Atlas of The Crusades, 178.
2. ^ a b J. Riley-Smith, The Crusades: A History, 193

## References[edit]

* Konstam, Angus (2003). Historical Atlas of The Crusades. Thalamus Publishing. ISBN 1-904668-00-3.
* Jonathan, Riley-Smith (2005). The Crusades: A History. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10128-7.

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