Well, in the Crusade of the Christians vs. the Muslims, the Christian lord was Richard the Lionhearted, and the Muslim lord was Saladin.
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It cost a lot of money to the kings and queens that were running the crusades, and castles took a decline from all the sieges. It also caused towns to spring up and vassals, serfs and freeman alike ran to the towns, giving the lords the need to hire mercenary armies.
Feudalism was already in decline by the time of the Crusades due to factors such as the growth of centralized monarchies and the rise of commerce. The Crusades did contribute to the decline of feudalism by weakening the power of feudal lords and increasing the authority of monarchs. However, it is unlikely that feudalism would have continued indefinitely even without the Crusades due to the broader socio-economic changes taking place in Europe during that time.
Four Crusades, with other negligible crusades.
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