Expiry of the Ayyubid-Crusader Truce

Timeline

1. 1195Levant · LevantAfter Saladin's death, al-Afdal, representing the Ayyubid side, renewed a three-year truce with the Kingdom of Jerusalem, continuing the relative peace since the Treaty of Jaffa (1192) and allowing both sides to recover and attend to internal affairs.
2. 1198Levant · LevantThe three-year truce expired in 1198; the Ayyubid lords, divided by fraternal conflict, could not present a unified negotiating front, and the Crusaders likewise failed to secure a new treaty of equivalent restraint. Border raids and small-scale clashes increased, and the strategic balance loosened again.