When King Richard I battled for Jerusalem in the III Crusade after the defeat of Guy of Lusignan by Saladin who took the Holy Land after the loss at the Battle of Hattin, the Armenian knights of Cilicia rode to fight alongside the Christian rulers of the time being the final line between the Christian world and the Muslim invasion. Templars and Hospitallers, Knights of England were supported by Armenian nobility, a knighthood far older and truly Christian, as eternal emblem of love for Christ unto death, riding for Christendom, for Jerusalem. At each battle, from the conquest of Antioch to the battle of Acre, from the Battle of Ager Sanguinis to the Siege of Edessa, to the battle of Homs, the Armenian nobility were present to bring victory against Muslim invasion. However, in the end of the III Crusade, at the battle of Jaffa, King Richard I choosing to agree to terms of a treaty, without the presence of the Armenian knighthood, did not invade the Holy Land having marched to Jerusalem.