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France, Conrad III of Germany
Zengi, Nur-al Din
Siege of Damascus
Damascus
1187

Urban III
King Guy de Lusignan, Raymond III of Tripoli, Reynald of Châtillon, Balian of Ibelin
Saladin
Battle of Hattin, Fall of Jerusalem
Outrémer
1189–1192
Third
Gregory VIII
Frederick Barbarossa, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Philip II Augustus
Saladin
Conquest of Cyprus, Siege of Acre, Battle of Arsuf
Cyprus, Anatolia, Syria, Outrémer
1201–1205
Fourth
Innocent III
Thibaut III of Champagne, Enrico Dandolo, Boniface of Montferrat, Alexius Angelus
Alexius III, Alexius V
Sieges of Zara and Constantinople
Venice, Dalmatia, Constantinople
1218–1221
Fifth
Innocent III
King John of Brienne, Cardinal Pelagius, St. Francis of Assisi
al-Kamil
Siege of Damietta
Egypt
1228–1229
Sixth
Gregory IX
Frederick II
al-Kamil
Jerusalem
Outrémer
1248–1254
1st Crusade
of St. Louis IX
Innocent IV
St. Louis IX
Turan Shah
Siege of Damietta, Mansourah
Egypt, Outrémer
1269–1272
2nd Crusade
of St. Louis IX
Clement IV
St. Louis IX
Baybars
Tunis
North Africa
1291

Nicholas IV
King Henry II of Jerusalem, Amalric
al-Mansur Qalawun, al-Ashraf Khalil
Fall of Acre
Outrémer
1453

Nicholas V
Constantine XI
Mehmet II
Fall of Constantinople
Constantinople
1565

Pius IV
Jean de La Valette
Suleiman the Magnificent, Mustapha Pasha, Piyale
Siege of Malta
Malta
1571

St. Pius V
Don Juan of Austria
Selim II, Ali Pasha
Battle of Lepanto
Gulf of Lepanto
1683

Bl. Innocent XI
Emperor Leopold I, Rüdiger Starhemberg, King Jan Sobieski
Mehmet IV, Kara Mustapha
Siege of Vienna
Austria

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