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The Crusader States were the territories created by Western Europeans who arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries.

The first four Crusader states were:

These four were created during and immediately after the First Crusade. The first Crusader State, the County of Edessa, was founded in 1098. The Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted until 1291, when the city of Acre fell. There were also a number of vassal states of Jerusalem.

During the Third Crusade, the Crusaders founded:

The Kingdom of Cyprus

Richard I of England conquered the island on the way to the Holy LandThe phrase The Holy Land ( Arabic al-Ar ul-Muqaddasah Hebrew Standard Hebrew re haQodeš Tiberian Hebrew re haqQeš Latin Terra Sancta generally refers to the region of Palestine or Land of Israel. Specifically, it focuses on those areas which hol, and it came to be ruled by descendants of the displaced kings of Jerusalem until 1489Events March 14 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. November 29 Arthur Tudor is named Prince of Wales. December 11 Jeannetto de Tassis is appointed appointed Chief Master of Postal Services in Innsbruck, his descendants th.

In the Fourth CrusadeThe Fourth Crusade ( 1202- 1204), originally designed to conquer Egypt, instead, in 1204, conquered the Orthodox Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Background After the failure of the Third Crusade, there was little interes, the Byzantine EmpireThe Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the eastern section of the Roman Empire, with its capital at Constantinople (modern Istanbul), which remained in existence after the fall of Rome in the 5th century. The Byzantine period is usually consider was conquered and divided into four states:

The Empire of Romania (the Latin Empire)
The Kingdom of ThessalonicaThe Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived Crusader State founded after the Fourth Crusade. Boniface of Montferrat, the leader of the crusade, was expected by both the Crusaders and Byzantines to become the new emperor after the conquest of Constantino
The Duchy of AthensThe Duchy of Athens was one of the Crusader States set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade. The first duke of Athens (as well as Thebes, at first) was Otto de la Roche, a minor Burgundian knight of the Fourth
The Principality of AchaeaThe Principality of Achaea was one of the three vassal states of the Latin Empire which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. Achaea was founded in 1205 by William of Champlitte, a minor knight who ha

The Venetians also created the Duchy of the Archipelago in the Aegean Sea in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.

Thessalonica and the Latin Empire were reconquered by the Byzantines by 1261. Descendants of Crusaders continued to rule in Athens and the Peloponnesus or Morea until the mid- 15th century.

Israel is sometimes compared to a Crusader state, usually by those opposed to its existence and/or policies. Objective scholars usually do not call it one. See also Tenth Crusade.

Please see the articles on the individual states for more information.

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