NAME OF POPE OR OTHER | DATES OF REIGN OR CRUSADE | NOTES |
Nicholas II | 1058-1061 | |
Honorius II | 1061-1072 | Opposition Pope |
Alexander II | 1061-1073 | |
Gregory VII | 1073-1085 | |
Clement III | 1073-1100 | Opposition Pope |
Victor III | 1086-1087 | |
Urban II | 1088-1099 | |
First Crusade | 1095-1102 | Called for by Pope Urban II to recapture Jerusalem; Edessa, Antioch, Caesarea, Acre, and Jerusalem captured successfully |
Paschal II | 1099-1118 | |
Knights Hospitaler | 1113 | Recognized as a religious order by Pope Paschal II |
Theodoric | 1100-1101 | Opposition Pope |
Adalbert | 1101-1102 | Opposition Pope |
Sylvester IV | 1105-1111 | Opposition Pope |
Gelasius II | 1118-1119 | |
Gregory VIII | 1118-1121 | Opposition Pope |
Knights Templar | ~1119 | |
Callixtus | 1119-1124 | |
Celestine II | 1124-1124 | Opposition Pope |
Honorius II | 1124-1130 | |
Innocent II | 1130-1143 | |
Anacletus II | 1130-1138 | Opposition Pope |
Victor IV | 1138-1138 | Opposition Pope |
Celestine II | 1143-1144 | |
Lucius II | 1144-1145 | |
IMAD AD-DIN ZANGI | 12/24/1144 | Leads the Muslim Seljuk Turks to capture Edessa |
Eugene III | 1145-1153 | |
Second Crusade | 1147-1149 | Called for by Pope Eugene III to retake Edessa; unsuccessful; much of Moorish Spain is recaptured; Muslims take Antioch |
Anastasius IV | 1153-1154 | |
Adrian IV | 1154-1159 | |
Alexander III | 1159-1181 | |
Victor IV | 1159-1164 | Opposition Pope |
Paschal III | 1164-1168 | Opposition Pope |
Calixtus III | 1168-1178 | Opposition Pope |
SALADIN | Reign: 1174-1193 | Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria |
Innocent III | 1179-1180 | Opposition Pope |
Lucius III | 1181-1185 | |
Urban III | 1185-1187 | |
SALADIN | October 1187 | Took Jerusalem |
Gregory VIII | 1187-1187 | Calls for Third Crusade to recapture Jerusalem |
Clement III | 1187-1191 | |
Third Crusade | 1189-1192 | Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I drowns in a river on the way to crusade; Richard the Lionheart captures Cyprus, Acre, Jaffa, defeats Saladin but doesn’t take Jerusalem; he is shipwrecked on the way home and taken prisoner by German emperor Henry VI |
Celestine III | 1191-1198 | |
The German Crusade | 1197-1198 | Led by Roman Emperor Henry VI, captures Beirut; crusade ends with the death of Henry VI |
Innocent III | 1198-1216 | |
Order of Teutonic Knights | 1198 | Officially sanctioned by Pope Innocent III; Pope Innocent III called for Fourth Crusade |
Fourth Crusade | 1202-1204 | Formed to recapture Jerusalem, but attacks and sacks Constantinopole instead |
Albigensian Crusade | 1209-1229 | Against Cathars heretics in southern France |
Homorius III | 1216-1227 | |
The Children’s Crusade | 1212 | Nicholas of Cologne leads a children’s army to Jerusalem but many die of hunger crossing the Italian Alps and the Pope tells them to go home |
Fifth Crusade | 1217-1221 | Called for by Pope Innocent III in 1215; was called to attack Muslim-held cities in North Africa and Egypt; unsuccessful, wind up surrendering |
Gregory IX | 1227-1241 | |
Sixth Crusade | 1228-1229 | Called by Roman Emperor Frederick II; achieves control of Jerusalem through Treaty of Jaffa |
Celestine IV | 1241-1241 | |
Interregnum | 1241-1243 | Nothing is known about why it took so long to elect a new pope. Celestine IV was elected in October of 1241 and died in November of the same year. Pope Innocent IV was elected in June of 1243. |
Innocent IV | 1243-1254 | |
LOUIS IX, KING OF FRANCE | 1244 | Louis takes up the cross and vows to go on Crusade |
AL-SALIH | 1245-1249 | Sultan of Egypt and Syria |
AL-SALIH | 1247 | Captures Escalon from the Franks |
Seventh Crusade | 1248-1254 | Lead by Louis IX against Muslim-held cities in North Africa and Egypt; not successful; Louis is captured and then released |
Alexander IV | 1254-1261 | |
Urban IV | 1261-1264 | |
Clement IV | 1265-1268 | |
Interregnum | 1268-1271 | Almost three-year period without a valid pope elected. This was due to a deadlock among cardinals voting for the pope. |
Eighth Crusade | 1270 | Lead by Louis IX against Muslim-held cities in North Africa and Egypt; not successful; Louis dies of dysentery in Tunis, crusade is abandoned, many ships lost in a storm on the way home. |
Gregory X | 1171-1176 | |
Innocent V | 1276-1276 | |
Adrian V | 1276-1276 | |
John XXI | 1276-1277 | |
Nicholas III | 1277-1280 | |
Martin IV | 1281-1285 | |
Honorus IV | 1285-1287 | |
Nicholas IV | 1288-1292 | |
MAMLUK SULTANATE | 1291 | Acre is taken and Jerusalem is absorbed into the Mamluk Sultanate |
Interregnum | 1292-1294 | Two year period without a valid pope elected. This was due to a deadlock among cardinals voting for the pope. |
Celectine V | 1294-1294 | |
Boniface VIII | 1294-1303 | |
Benedict XI | 1303-1304 | |
Clement V | 1305-1314 | |
Knights Templar | 1312 | Pope Clement V officially abolishes Knights Templar |
Interregnum | 1314-1316 | Two year period without a valid pope elected. This was due to a deadlock among cardinals voting for the pope. |
John XXII | 1316-1334 |
7/16/22 TABLE OF MEDIEVAL POPES, THE CRUSADES, ETC.
