Battle of Mansurah

Battle of Al Mansurah
Part of the Seventh Crusade
Battle of Al Mansurah
Date 8–11 February 1250 Location Al Mansurah, Egypt Result Decisive Ayyubid victory
Belligerents
Ayyubid Bahris	Crusaders
Commanders and leaders
Qutuz Fakhr-ad-Din Yusuf  † Baibars Faris ad-Din Aktai	Louis IX Guillaume de Sonnac † Alphonse de Poitiers Robert d'Artois † William II Longespée
Strength
4600 Cavalry including Mamluks, a much larger number of infantry probably 6000 or more and Egyptian reserves	Several hundred knights, Several thousand infantry
Casualties and losses
Heavy	300 knights, 80 templars, and a very large number of infantry.

Ayyubid

The Battle of Al Mansurah was fought from February 8 to February 11, 1250, between Crusaders led by Louis IX, King of France, and Ayyubid forces led by Emir Fakhr-ad-Din Yusuf, Faris ad-Din Aktai and Baibars al-Bunduqdari.

By the mid-13th century, the Crusaders became convinced that Egypt, the heart of Islam's forces and arsenal, was an obstacle to their ambition to capture Jerusalem, which they had lost for the second time in 1244. In 1245, during the First Council of Lyon, Pope Innocent IV gave his full support to the Seventh Crusade being prepared by Louis IX, King of France.

The goals of the Seventh Crusade were to destroy the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt and Syria, and to recapture Jerusalem. The Crusaders asked the Mongols to become their allies against the Muslims, the Crusaders attacking the Islamic world from west, and the Mongols attacking from the east. Güyük, the Great Khan of the Mongols, told the Pope's envoy that the Pope and the kings of Europe should submit to the Mongols.

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