- published: 14 Oct 2011
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The Seventh Crusade was a crusade led by Louis IX of France from 1248 to 1254. Approximately 800,000 bezants were paid in ransom for King Louis who, along with thousands of his troops, were defeated and captured by the Egyptian army led by the Ayyubid Sultan Turanshah supported by the Bahariyya Mamluks led by Faris ad-Din Aktai, Baibars al-Bunduqdari, Qutuz, Aybak and Qalawun.
In 1244, the Khwarezmians, recently displaced by the advance of the Mongols, took Jerusalem on their way to ally with the Egyptian Mamluks. This returned Jerusalem to Muslim control, but the fall of Jerusalem was no longer an earth-shattering event to European Christians, who had seen the city pass from Christian to Muslim control numerous times in the past two centuries. This time, despite calls from the Pope, there was no popular enthusiasm for a new crusade. There were also many conflicts within Europe that kept its leaders from embarking on the Crusade.
Slaves under lock in the seventh crusade
This war won't stop, it's of heaven made
Soldiers of the seventh crusade
So many say it's the crusaders fault
The world is upside down
But as you know they only did what they'd been told
Couldn't realize it was forever, on and on
They were knights on the seventh crusade
Blood from a rock
Knights on the seventh crusade
Slaves under lock, this war won't stop
So what is Jesus for the common man?
Muhammad's dear old friend
I wonder what they think abouth these infernal fights
Are we all infected souls of evil?
Yes we are
There is a place on a higher ground
Where angel's play, heavenly sound
Get embraced by the great one's might
We're gonna shine like fire, fire light
This is a time of pure disharmony
And man is killing man
So for a thousand years time has been standing still
I guess this holy war will last forever, on and on
What is left to say?
Are you on your way to the seventh crusade?
Seventh crusade
To the seventh crusade
Seventh crusade
Knights on the seventh