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...that the Crusade of Varna was a string of events in 1443–44 between the Kingdom of Hungary, the Serbian Despotate, and the Ottoman Empire that culminated in a devastating Hungarian loss at the Battle of Varna (pictured) on 10 November 1444?
...that the Wendish Crusade was an 1147 campaign of crusaders against the Wends of what is now northern and eastern Germany that forced tribute from the pagan Slavs?
...that the Prussian Crusade was a series of 13th-century campaigns of crusaders, primarily led by the Teutonic Knights, to Christianize the pagan Old Prussians?

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...that Peirol (pictured) supported the Third Crusade and encouraged the kings of Europe to make peace and send aid to the King of Jerusalem?
...that Arnau Mir de Tost is sometimes praised as the "El Cid of the Lands of Lleida" for his foundational role in reestablishing Christian rule in the region to the south of Urgell?
...that the Saladin tithe was a tax, or more specifically a tallage, levied in England and to some extent in France in 1188, in response to the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187?

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...that ʿIṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn was the wife of two of the greatest Muslim generals of the 12th century, Nur ad-Din and Saladin?
...that in the Battle of Shaizar a Crusader army commanded by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem (pictured) and a Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of Mosul fought to tactical draw?
...that the Crusade cycle is an Old French cycle of chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath?

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...that the Château de Lusignan in France was the seat of the lords of Lusignan, who distinguished themselves in the First Crusade and held the crowns of two Crusader kingdoms?
...that Quantum praedecessores is a papal bull issued on December 1, 1145, by Pope Eugene III (pictured), calling for a Second Crusade?
...that Adelaide del Vasto was the Queen consort of the Jerusalem due to her later marriage to Baldwin I of Jerusalem, as his third wife?

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