Guy of Lusignan

serie di guerre del Medioevo

stato crociato in Medio Oriente (1099-1291)

guerra santa combattuta tra il 1189 e il 1192

Saladin’s decisive victory over the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which destroyed the kingdom’s main field force and opened the way for the reconquest of Jerusalem.

Saladin’s siege of Jerusalem, ending with the city’s surrender on October 2, 1187, after the defeat of the crusader army at Hattin.

A prominent nobleman of the Kingdom of Jerusalem who commanded the defense of Jerusalem during Saladin’s siege in 1187.

sultano di Egitto, Siria e Hijaz (1137–1193)

re di Gerusalemme (r. 1174-1185)

regina di Gerusalemme (r. 1186-1190)

The battlefield near the Sea of Galilee where Saladin defeated the main army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187.

The major political and religious center of Judea and the setting for much of the film’s story.

The Latin Christian polity in the Levant where the film’s court politics, frontier warfare, and defense of Jerusalem unfold.

A major crusader castle and lordship in Transjordan, historically associated with the lordship of Oultremer and the tensions preceding the 1187 campaign.