Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers composes Qui vol aver complida amistansa, a canso about Louis IX of France and his preparations for the Eighth Crusade
Occitan troubadours dealt especially with the Albigensian campaigns in the early thirteenth century, but there decline thereafter left the later Crusades—Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth—to be convered primarily by the German Minnesinger and French trouvères.
Louis was soon convinced by his brother Charles of Anjou to attack Tunis first, which would give them a strong base for attacking Egypt, the focus of Louis' previous crusade as well as the Fifth Crusade before him, both of which had been defeated there.
After the failure of the Eighth Crusade, Charles of Anjou returned his attention to Albania.
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He came from an old line of country nobility; his direct ancestors had served in the Fifth Crusade against Egypt, and again in the Eighth Crusade of Saint Louis against Tunisia in 1270.
Her first marriage was to John Tristan, Count of Valois, son of Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence, in June 1265; they had no children, and he died of dysentery in 1270 at Tunis while on the Eighth Crusade.