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Year 1169 ( MCLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. By place. Byzantine Empire. Late Summer – Emperor Manuel I ( Komnenos) sends an embassy to Egypt to demand tribute, and threatens the country with war when they refuse to pay it.
- AD 1169
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- AD 1169
- Egypt Under The Fatimids
- The Motives of The Zengids & The Crusaders
- The First Crusader Invasion & Nur Ad-Din's Intervention
- Shawar's Betrayal & The Second Crusader Invasion
- Shirkuh Strikes Back & The Third Crusader Invasion
- The Fourth Crusader Invasion & Shirkuh's Victory
- Saladin Becomes The Vizier
The Fatimids (909-1171 CE) were an Arabic dynasty, which at their peak ruled over vast stretches from North Africa to the Hejaz, Levant, and parts of Syria, they also held onto Sicily from 909 CE to 965 CE. They claimed to be the descendants of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima (hence the term Fatimid) and served as a rival (...
Nur ad-Din Zengi, the ruler of Aleppo (r. 1146-1174 CE), which he inherited from his father in 1146 CE, and Damascus (r. 1156-1174 CE), which entered his dominion after a failed attempt of the knights of the Second Crusade to besiege it, sought to drive out the Crusaders from the Holy Land just as his father had. But he was quite a different ruler ...
In 1163 CE, a quarrel ensued between the new vizier Dirgham and Amalric regarding the annual tribute that the Fatimids had been paying to the kingdom, and this provoked an invasion by the latter in 1163 CE. After suffering a defeat at the hand of the Franks, Dirgham, in his hour of desperation, ordered dams to be destroyed and flooded his realm to ...
Amalric, who was eagerly preparing to attack Egypt, welcomed Shawar's appeal for help and arrived with his Crusader army; outnumbered heavily, the Syrians entrenched themselves in Bilbeys. For three months, they resisted all assaults of the combined Fatimid-Frankish force, but they were losing patience as rations fell and morale was at an ever-lowe...
Shirkuh was restless after his failure, but Nur ad-Din decided not to order another expedition for the time being. In order to convince his master, Shirkuh wrote to the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, who although possessed no authority over Nur ad-Din was nevertheless highly respected and honored for his title by the latter. The caliph sent a message, ...
The tide suddenly changed in 1168 CE, when Amalric, encouraged the Knights Hospitaller who had bankrupted themselves over Egypt (and wished to regain the money they had lost through plunder), betrayed Shawar by attacking Bilbeys and massacring the local population; not a single soul was spared. A shocked Shawar realized that his capital – Fustat (n...
In the aftermath of the loss of Egypt, the Crusaders made another desperate attempt to seize it with the help of their allies: the Byzantines. They attempted a combined naval assault on Alexandria in 1169 CE. But it was not Shirkuh who repelled the attack, for he died just three months after assuming the office. As his elected successor, it was Sal...
Asad ad-Dīn Shīrkūh bin Shādhī ( Kurdish: ئەسەددین شێرکۆ, romanized: Esed El-Dîn Şêrko; Arabic: أسد الدين شيركوه بن شاذي ), also known as Shirkuh, or Şêrko (meaning "lion of the mountains" in Kurdish) (died 22 February 1169) was a military commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, and uncle of Saladin.
1169 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Contents. hide. Beginning. Events. 1169 was a common year. Events. Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din. Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev. Start of the conquest of Ireland.
On 1 May 1169 the Norman military invasion of Ireland headed by Diarmait Mac Murchada began with Wexford falling first. Mac Murchada’s new army went on to launching raids in the Kingdom of Ossory, the territories of the Uí Tuathail, the Uí Broin, and the Uí Conchobhair.
1169 ( MCLXIX) fue un año común comenzado en miércoles del calendario juliano . Acontecimientos. 4 de febrero: Un fuerte terremoto de 7,3 sacude Sicilia provocando un tsunami que deja 25.000 muertos. Enrique II de Inglaterra inicia la conquista de Irlanda.
