Baldwin of Flanders (Comte Bauduin de Flandre et de Hinaut), Emperor, after the conquest of Constantinople.

1202-1204: The Fourth Crusade: The armies of the Fourth Crusade (departing from Venice) never reach the Holy Land. Instead of marching on Jerusalem, this Crusade is diverted to Constantinople, capital of the Christian Byzantine Empire. The Crusaders pillage the city and put its inhabitants to the sword. The city remains in Latin hands until 1261. |Text|Pics|Maps|Links|

1208: Albigensian Crusade: Preached by Pope Innocent III against the Albigensian heretics in southern France. |Text|Pics|Maps|Links|

1212: The Children's Crusade: Preached and led by Stephan of Vendôme (a French shephard boy) and by Nicholas of Köln, thousands of children set off for the Holy Land. One group reaches Marseille (although many children die on the road) and is sold into slavery; the other group turns back. |Text|Pics|Maps|
Note: The Children's Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events in 1212 that combine some or all of these elements: visions by a boy, children marching to south Italy, an attempt to free the Holy Land, and children being sold into slavery. Several conflicting accounts exist, and the facts of the situation continue to be a subject of debate among historians. |Link|

1217(18?)-1221 The Fifth Crusade: Under Andrew of Hungary and others against the Muslim power in Egypt, an unsuccessful attack. |Text|Pics|Maps|Links| Extra Photobook: The involvement of people from Haarlem, now the Netherlands, in the conquest of Damietta (Dutch: Damiate)| Extra: Haarlem, more than 700 years old, a true historical city with remarkable ties to the 'Kruistochten' (Crusades)... |

1228-1229 The Sixth Crusade: Led by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, undertaken while he was under the ban of the Church. He negotiates a temporary peace treaty with the Muslims, which leads to Christian control of several important holy sites, including Jerusalem and the south of Palestine. Jerusalem is retaken by Muslim mercenaries in 1244. |Text|Pics|Maps|Links|

1248-1254 The Seventh Crusade: Led by King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis). He captures the Egyptian city of Damietta, but is himself taken captive in the battle for Cairo. He was eventually ransomed and had to pay 800,000 pieces of gold. |Text|Pics|Maps|Links|

1270: The Eighth Crusade: King Louis IX of France ( Saint Louis) headed another Crusade (an unsuccessful attack on Tunis), but died at Carthage of the plague.

Prince Edward of England (afterwards Edward I), a few months later led his own followers to Acre, but achieved no results. |Text|Pics|Maps|Links|

1291: The Muslims capture the city of Acre, one of the last Christian strongholds in the Holy Land.

* Note: It's a common belief that the fall of the city of Acre (May 8th, 1291) meant the end of the presence of Crusaders in the Holy Land. This for instance is what Lonely Planet tells the readers: (...) after decades of Christian/Muslim scuffling, the Islamic Mamluks knocked over the last Crusader stronghold in 1291. (...) This 'common belief' is not true. The great building of the Templars in Acre (south-westpoint of the city) held out until May 18th. And still there were other important cities in the hands of Crusaders: strongly defended but given up without a fight: Tyre, Sidon (where Templars decided 'to stand until the last man' but did not do so), Beirut (taken on July 31) and Haifa (taken without any opposition). After the cities two remaining castles were taken (at Tortosa and Athlit) and all that finally remained was the island fortress of Ruad, opposite Tortosa in the Mediterranean, which the Templars held until 1303. The spirit of the Crusades slowly faded away in Europe - 'over there' the Crusaders had hope nor spirit left at all. They had to flee, were driven into the sea or were just simply slain or sold as slaves by the victorious Mameluks.