The Fifth Crusade was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate, led by S
The Siege of Damietta
King Andrew II of Hungary at the head of his crusader army (Illuminated Chronicle)
Frisian crusaders attack a tower near Damietta during the Fifth Crusade (from Matthew Paris' 13th-century Chronica Majora).
Saint Francis of Assisi and Illuminato da Rieti before Sultan al-Kamil. 15th century fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli.