commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Louis IX of France

King of France from 1226 to 1270 (1214–1270), 1215 to 1270

Louis IX of France is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1242 and 1270: 3 battles and 2 sieges across 3 present-day countries, most in Egypt (3), France (1), Tunisia (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 5,385 km apart end to end, 1,346 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Seventh Crusade (3).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Seventh Crusade 3

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
21 July 1242	Battle of Taillebourg	Taillebourg, France		French victory
5 June 1249	Siege of Damietta	Damietta, Egypt	3,212 km E	Crusader victory
8 February 1250	Battle of Mansurah	Mansoura, Egypt	58 km SW	Ayyubid victory
6 April 1250	Battle of Fariskur	Egypt	45 km NE	Ayyubid victory
1270	Eighth Crusade	Tunis, Tunisia	2,070 km NW	Withdrawal of Crusaders from Ifriqiya; Death of Louis IX of...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.