Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year
siege of Acre.
Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the
Third Crusade leaders
Richard I of England,
Philip II of France, and
Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers. Richard stays to push on to
Jerusalem, but Philip returns to France to take possession of a part of Flanders whose count had died at the
siege of Acre. Back in France, Philip also schemes with Richard's brother,
John of England, to dispossess Richard of his French lands while he is still away, but the intervention of John's (and Richard's) mother,
Eleanor of Aquitaine, foils the plan."King John" by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 43
