The Siege That Erased Jerusalem's Christian Kingdom
In 1244, Jerusalem fell to an army of Khwarezmian nomads—desperate refugees of the Mongol conquests who had been hired by the Ayyubid sultan as mercenaries. The sack was brutal: churches burned, the Holy Sepulchre desecrated, and the city's remaining Crusader population massacred or enslaved. This episode follows the tragic arc of the siege that effectively ended the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem's hold on the city, just forty-five years after Saladin's more chivalrous conquest. We trace how the Khwarezmians, under their leader Jalal al-Din Mingburnu, had been driven from their homeland by Genghis Khan's armies, and how their rage found a target in Jerusalem. The battle of Harbiyah followed, where the Templars, Hospitallers, and Ayyubid allies were crushed. Lucas and Luna explore the forgotten hinge of history that shaped the region's destiny.
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