Mumluks expel Franks from Galilee and capture Templar fortress of Safed.

1267

24 March

Louis IX again takes the cross;

November

Death of Hugh II of Cyprus; succeeded by Hugh III of Antioch-Lusignan.

1268

7 March

Jaffa falls to Baybars, city is sacked and population slaughtered;

18 May

Antioch falls to Baybars, population slaughtered; this sack is widely recognised as the worst massacre of the entire crusading era;

29 October

Death of Conradin Hohenstaufen, last titular king of Jerusalem in the Hohenstaufen line.

1269

Hugh III of Cyprus claims Crown of Jerusalem.

1270

25 August

Louis IX sets out on his second crusade (the eighth of the conventionally numbered crusades); dies at the siege of Tunis.

1271

9 May

Prince Edward of England arrives in Acre.

1272

April

Prince Edward signs ten-year truce with Mamluks.

1277

Charles d’Anjou buys Crown of Jerusalem from Marie d’Antioch; divides the kingdom between supporters of kings of Sicily and Cyprus;

1 July

Death of Sultan Baybars.

1279

November

Sultan Qalawun emerges victorious from vicious infighting as new Mamluk sultan.

1281

29 October

Qalawun defeats Mongols at Homs.

1285

7 January

Death of Charles d’Anjou; Sicilian claim to crown of Jerusalem extinguished.

1286

15 August

Henry II of Cyprus recognised and crowned king of Jerusalem, uniting the kingdoms of Cyprus and Jerusalem.

1287

Qalawun captures Antiochene port of Latakia.

1289