• The Saladin tithe, or the Aid of 1188, was a tax (more specifically a tallage) levied in England and, to some extent, France, in 1188, in response to...
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    from tithes of the church's members. The right to receive tithes was granted to the English churches by King Ethelwulf in 855. The Saladin tithe was a...
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    Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family...
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    then both took the cross. Both imposed a "Saladin tithe" on their citizens to finance the venture. (No such tithe had been levied in the Empire.) In Britain...
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  • recorded taxes on income was the Saladin tithe introduced by Henry II in 1188 to raise money for the Third Crusade. The tithe demanded that each layperson...
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    It is not known whether palatinate would have been subject to the Saladin tithe, as bishop de Puiset pledged to go on crusade and was therefore exempt...
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    Battle of Hattin (category Battles of Saladin)
    new crusade within days of his election. In England and France, the Saladin tithe was enacted to raise funds for the new crusade. The subsequent Third...
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    Richard I of England (category Saladin)
    spent most of his father's treasury (filled with money raised by the Saladin tithe), raised taxes, and even agreed to free King William I of Scotland from...
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    taxes were collected in 1185 and 1188. The 1188 tax was known as the Saladin tithe because people were ordered to pay a tenth of all income and movables...
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    Siege of Jerusalem (1187) (category Battles of Saladin)
    October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Earlier that summer, Saladin had defeated the kingdom's army and conquered several cities...
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  • dynasties. In 1188, Henry II gained the council's consent to levy the Saladin tithe. The precedent of gaining the magnates' consent in council for taxation...
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  • Templars in England Gilbert of Ogerstan, caught stealing money from the Saladin tithe, 1188 Sir Lachlan MacLean-de Corzon (d.1194) Baron of ak'ham, fought...
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    Crusade to reconquer Jerusalem from Saladin. Richard funded this campaign through taxation (such as the Saladin tithe) as well as selling offices, titles...
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    country to pay a tithe for the Crusade against Saladin in 1188, he demanded a quarter of all Jewish chattels. The so-called "Saladin tithe" was reckoned...
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  •  345) Saladin Tithe. The Saladin tithe of 1188 was a tax levied by Henry II of England to support the conduct of the Third Crusade. The tithe was issued...
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  • frequent levies upon ecclesiastical possessions. The Dime Saladine (Saladin Tithe) was inaugurated when Philip II Augustus (1180–1223) united his forces...
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  • of Isaac ben Samuel, is murdered for refusing to convert. 1188 The Saladin tithe: Jews are taxed 25% of their income and personal worth, while Christians...
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    crusade, the Saladin tithe is begun in England. 27 March. Frederick Barbarossa takes the cross at the Curia Christi held in Mainz. Spring. Saladin releases...
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    prohibited to crusaders and pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land under the Saladin Tithe of 1188, but scant evidence exists in the historical record of legal...
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    precedent was established when the great council granted Henry II the Saladin tithe. In granting this tax, the great council was acting as representatives...
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    and income, and it could be imposed at varying rates. Likewise, the Saladin tithe, imposed in 1188 to raise funds for a proposed crusade by King Henry...
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  • to raise a new tax to pay for the expedition. This tax, known as the Saladin Tithe, is imposed on the people of England and France to raise funds for the...
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    to raise a new tax to pay for the expedition. This tax, known as the Saladin Tithe, is imposed on the people of England and France to raise funds for the...
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  • Ogrestan, the Knight Templar accused of embezzling taxes collected in the Saladin tithe of 1188. He was severely punished by his contemporary Master. In 1200...
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    1176 Assize of Arms 1181 Assize of the Forest 1184 Ordinance of the Saladin Tithe 1188 Capitula Itineris (Articles of the Eyre) 1194 Magna Carta 1215...
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  • convinced them to take the cross as well. In England, Henry promulgated the Saladin tithe to pay for the crusade; this was perhaps influenced by the 1183 tax...
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    one-off brews. The first tax on beer in the United Kingdom was the Saladin tithe, introduced in 1188 by Henry II to raise money for the crusades 982 ha...
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    was first levied both in France and England in 1166. In 1188, the "Saladin tithe"—a ten percent extraordinary tax on income and property—was introduced...
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    popularly known as the "Saladin tithe" and was the most extensive tax ever collected in England up to that point. Being a tithe and not a secular tax,...
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  • was the beginning of taxation on movable goods, first applied in the Saladin tithe of 1189 later expanding into a general system. In the reign of King...
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