 The Crusade ended after the Christians captured Sidon and Beirut from the Muslims in 1198.On 2 October 1187 the Ayyubid sultan Saladin captured Jerusalem and large parts of the Crusader states.In an effort to reclaim the "Outremer" estates, the Third Crusade was launched by King Philip II of France, King Richard I of England, and Emperor Frederick I of the Holy Roman Empire in 1189.