Crusades
1095–1291
Christian military campaigns in the Holy Land.
- Type
- War
- Date
- 1095–1291
- Place
- Levant
Who was alive during Crusades
- Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179, abbess
- Averroes 1126–1198, philosopher
- Zhu Xi 1130–1200, philosopher
- Al-Jazari 1136–1206, engineer
- Saladin c. 1137–1193, sultan
- Maimonides c. 1138–1204, philosopher
- Richard the Lionheart 1157–1199, king
- Genghis Khan c. 1162–1227, ruler
- King John of England 1166–1216, king
- Leonardo Fibonacci c. 1170–c. 1250, mathematician
- Francis of Assisi c. 1181–1226, religious leader
- Rumi 1207–1273, poet
- Haji Bektash Veli c. 1209–c. 1271, Sufi mystic
- Saadi Shirazi c. 1210–1291, poet
- Kublai Khan 1215–1294, emperor
- Roger Bacon c. 1219–c. 1292, philosopher of science
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274, theologian
- Yunus Emre c. 1238–c. 1320, poet
- Marco Polo 1254–1324, explorer
- Osman I c. 1258–c. 1324, sultan
- Ibn Taymiyya 1263–1328, theologian
- Dante Alighieri c. 1265–1321, poet
- Giotto c. 1267–1337, painter