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Louis IX of France had communications with the Mongols throughout his own crusades. During his first venture to Outremer , he was met on December 20, 1248 in Cyprus by two Mongol envoys, Nestorians from Mosul named David and Marc , who brought a letter from the Mongol commander in Persia, Eljigidei . [ 47 ]
Crusade Preached against the Mongols in Syria 1260 After the Mongol takeover of Aleppo in 1260, the Franks in the kingdom called on Alexander IV and Charles I of Anjou for help. The pope issued the bull Audiat orbis calling for a crusade against the Mongols and excommunicating Bohemond VI of Antioch for cooperating with
Eventually Pope Gregory IX did promise a Crusade and the Church finally helped sanction a small Crusade against the Mongols in mid-1241, but it was diverted when he died in August 1241. Instead of fighting the Mongols, the resources gathered by the Crusade was used to fight a crusade against the Hohenstaufen after the German barons revolted ...
The Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) was the first of the two Crusades led by Louis IX of France. Also known as the Crusade of Louis IX to the Holy Land, its objective was to reclaim the Holy Land by attacking Egypt, the main seat of Muslim power in the Middle East, then under as-Salih Ayyub, son of al-Kamil.
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The Seventh Crusade (1248–1254) was the first of the two Crusades led by Louis IX of France. Also known as the Crusade of Louis IX to the Holy Land , it aimed to reclaim the Holy Land by attacking Egypt, the main seat of Muslim power in the Near East.
Güyük, the Great Khan of the Mongols, told the Pope's envoy that the Pope and the kings of Europe should submit to the Mongols. [ 9 ] The ships of the Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois , sailed from Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, and then on to Egypt.
In June 1265, Clement IV, in response to a report he received from Béla IV, ordered the preaching of a new crusade against the Mongols in Austria, Bohemia, Brandenburg, Carinthia and Styria within the Holy Roman Empire. [84] The crusade against the Mongols was rarely promoted thereafter. In 1288, Nicholas IV ordered it preached in Bohemia. [84]