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Seventh Crusade

Seventh Crusade

9.9
A war led by King Louis IX in 1248–1249 to try to retake Jerusalem, ending in defeat
  • noun
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  • The Seventh Crusade was a significant event in medieval history, marked by Louis IX's efforts to restore Christian control over the Holy Land.

Examples

  • Jean de Joinville, the son of a nobleman of Champagne, who took the cross in 1248 and went on the Seventh Crusade, mentioned Rabi'ah's story in his book Life of Saint Louis.

    Academic text (2018)

  • King Louis IX led the Seventh Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from Muslim forces.

  • Many knights joined the Seventh Crusade in hopes of gaining honor and land during the campaign against the Saracens.

Surface Forms

Seventh Crusade singular
Seventh Crusades plural

Morphology

seventh + crusade

The phrase is a straightforward composition of the ordinal 'seventh' and the noun 'crusade', so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the seventh crusade in the historical sequence. Specific historical details (dates, leaders) are not derivable from the words, but the basic referent is fully compositional and cross-linguistically transparent.

Etymology

Seventh Crusade comes from the way people numbered a long series of religious wars: seventh shows its place in the series and crusade means a 'religious war'. It names the specific campaign led by King Louis IX in 1248-1249, so the phrase refers to that particular historical event.