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| | Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc. |
 | | While the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, King Philip II of France, and the King of England all went on Crusade, Frederick died on the way, Philip soon left, and operations were mainly conducted by Richard I, the Lion-Hearted. |
 | | William had been captured by John, brother of the Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, in 1259 and was ransomed with the cession of Laconia to the Romans in 1261 (beginning the Despotate of the Morea). |
 | | At the death of Isabella, Philip II of Taranto, a son of Charles II was then able to set aside her second husband, Philip of Savoy, and her daughter, Matilda, and return Achaea to the Anjevians. |
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