Battle of Forbie

Battle of Forbie
	Part of the Crusades
	; Battle of Forbie, from Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris
Date	October 17-18, 1244
Location	near the village of Hiribya (Forbie), northeast of Gaza
Result	Ayyubid victory
Belligerents
Ayyubid Sultanate; Khwarezmian mercenaries	Kingdom of Jerusalem; Knights Templar; Knights Hospitaller; Teutonic Knights; Order of Saint Lazarus; Oultrejordain; Ayyubid Homs; Ayyubid Damascus; Ayyubid Kerak
Commanders and leaders
Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Salihi; Husam al-Din ibn Abi Ali	Walter IV of Brienne (POW); Guillaume de Chateauneuf (POW); Armand de Périgord †; Hugues de Montlaur †; as-Salih Ismail; an-Nasir Dawud; al-Mansur Ibrahim
Strength
5,000 cavalry; More than 6,000 infantry	About 11,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	About 7,500

The Battle of Forbie, also known as the Battle of La Forbie or the Battle of Hiribya, was fought October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 between the allied armies (drawn from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the crusading orders, the breakaway Ayyubids of Damascus, Homs, and Kerak) and the Egyptian army of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub, reinforced with Khwarezmian mercenaries. The resulting Ayyubid victory led to the call for the Seventh Crusade and marked the collapse of Christian power in the Holy Land.

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