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Updated: May 12, 2025
For six years after the end of the Fifth Crusade in which the crusaders, forgetting their vows, instead of delivering Jerusalem sacked Constantinople the Christians of Palestine were protected by a truce with Saphadin, who had succeeded his brother Saladin in power.
When the loss of Damietta appeared inevitable, the Sultan of Syria, Khamel, the son of Saphadin, apprehensive that the Crusaders would immediately advance against Jerusalem, issued orders to destroy the fortifications, to prevent its being held by them as a place of defence.
Saphadin, who was informed of their hostile intentions, anticipated them in the field, and before they could advance to Jaffa, he had battered down the fortifications, and put thousands of the inhabitants to the sword.
Richard's feats of prowess among the Saracens. The Troubadours. Negotiations for peace. Saphadin. A marriage proposed. King Richard offered his sister in marriage to Saphadin.
The soldiers of this distinguished sultan rallied round his brother Saphadin, whom they raised to the throne.
The sons of Saphadin were now at the head of affairs in Syria, their father having retired from the fatigues of royalty; and, although unprepared to oppose so large a host with any prospect of success, they mustered what forces they could collect and advanced to Naplosa, the modern Nablous. But the insubordination of the invaders made victory more easy than was anticipated.
Saphadin, being provided with a safe-conduct for this purpose, passed back and forth between Jaffa and Saladin's camp, carrying the propositions and counter-propositions to and fro. Saphadin was a very courteous and gentlemanly man, and also a very brave soldier, and Richard formed quite a strong friendship for him.
He proposed a consolidation of the Christian and Mohammedan interests, the establishment of a government at Jerusalem, partly European and partly Asiatic; and this scheme of policy was to be carried into effect by the marriage of Saphadin, the brother of the sultan, with the widow of William, King of Sicily.
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