ERA // 1050 – 1299
High Middle Ages
43 wars · 73 battles
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The Crusades, the Mongol conquests, and the consolidation of feudal kingdoms.
Timeline
1050 – 1479
43 wars · span 429 years
Wars
43 catalogued
1051-1063
Zenkunen War
The Zenkunen War , also known in English as the Former Nine Years' War or the Early Nine Years' War, was fought between the Imperial Court and the Abe clan in Mutsu Province, in…
0 battles
1095-1291
Crusades
6 battles
1096-1099
First Crusade
7 battles
1096
People's Crusade
1 battle
1101-1300
Swedish–Novgorodian Wars
1 battle
1125-1300
Jurchen campaigns against the Song dynasty
The Jin–Song Wars were a series of conflicts between the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and the Han-led Song dynasty (960–1279). In 1115, Jurchen tribes rebelled against…
0 battles
1135-1154
The Anarchy
1 battle
1147-1149
Second Crusade
3 battles
1156
Hōgen rebellion
0 battles
1160
Heiji rebellion
0 battles
1180-1185
Genpei War
2 battles
1189-1192
Third Crusade
4 battles
1197-1198
Crusade of 1197
0 battles
1198
Livonian Crusade
3 battles
1201-1219
War of the Antiochene Succession
0 battles
1202-1204
Fourth Crusade
3 battles
1205-1279
Mongol invasion of China
The Mongol conquest of China was a series of major military efforts by the Mongol Empire to conquer various empires ruling over China for 74 years (1205–1279). It spanned over…
2 battles
1206-1337
Mongol invasions and conquests
The Mongol conquests took place during the 13th and 14th centuries, creating the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire (1206–1368), which by 1260 covered a…
10 battles
1209-1229
Albigensian Crusade
1 battle
1211-1234
Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
2 battles
1213-1221
Fifth Crusade
1 battle
1215-1217
First Barons' War
2 battles
1216-1221
Mongol invasion of Central Asia
Mongol campaigns in Central Asia occurred after the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes on the Mongolian Plateau in 1206. Smaller military operations of the Mongol Empire…
2 battles
1217-1274
Prussian Crusade
0 battles
1219-1221
Mongol invasion of Khwarazmian Empire and Eastern Iran
Between 1219 and 1221, the Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invaded the lands of the Khwarazmian Empire in Central Asia. The campaign, which followed the annexation of the Qara…
3 battles
1221
Jōkyū War
0 battles
1228-1229
Sixth Crusade
0 battles
1239-1241
Barons' Crusade
0 battles
1240-1241
Mongol invasion of Poland
The Mongol invasion of Poland from late 1240 to 1241 culminated in the Battle of Legnica, where the Mongols defeated an alliance which included forces from fragmented Poland and…
1 battle
1241-1335
Mongol conquest of Anatolia
1 battle
1248-1254
Seventh Crusade
3 battles
1256-1381
Venetian–Genoese Wars
0 battles
1256-1270
War of Saint Sabas
0 battles
1260-1264
Toluid Civil War
0 battles
1262-1266
Scottish–Norwegian War
1 battle
1264-1267
Second Barons' War
2 battles
1265-1479
Byzantine–Ottoman wars
9 battles
1270
Eighth Crusade
0 battles
1271-1272
Ninth Crusade
Lord Edward's Crusade, sometimes called the Ninth Crusade, was a military expedition to the Holy Land under the command of Edward Longshanks, later king of England, in 1271–1272.…
0 battles
1282-1302
War of the Sicilian Vespers
0 battles
1283-1286
Aragonese Crusade
0 battles
1283-1410
Lithuanian Crusade
1 battle
1296-1328
First War of Scottish Independence
1 battle
Famous commanders of the High Middle Ages era
12 shown
Abaqa
1 battle led
Abaqa Khan
1 battle led
Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad al-Mustansir
1 battle led
Adhemar of Le Puy
2 battles led
Afonso I of Portugal
1 battle led
Ahmad ibn-Marwan
1 battle led
Aju
2 battles led
Al-Adil I
1 battle led
Al-Afdal ibn Saladin
1 battle led
Al-Afdal Shahanshah
1 battle led
Al-Ashraf Musa, Emir of Homs
1 battle led
Al-Kamil
1 battle led
Ranked by Σ battle intensity across battles led in scope. Strategic leaders (chiefs of state / supreme commanders) pinned to the top.