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Fifth Crusade

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Noun1.Fifth Crusade - a Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offered


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During the Fifth Crusade (also known as Frisian Crusade), the Christian armies were camped in the Nile delta near Damietta where they plotted to take control of the city.
Thus, exploring the emergence and shifting meanings of the cult of Henry the Crusader in contemporary and subsequent accounts by fellow crusaders and in Portuguese sources from 1147 to 1217, Stephen Lay explores the rich layering of contexts, interests and investment in meanings in the making of martyrdom and crusader ideology from the second to the fifth crusade.
5) William Stubbs ignores a corpus of evidence on young widow's crusading assistance following her husband's untimely death during the Fifth Crusade when wrongly asserting, "She maintained a hands-off approach to the expedition.
 
 
 
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