Baibars
4th Sultan of Egypt from 1260 to 1277
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Lived 1223–1277, aged 54
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Updated 2026-06-08
The Mamluk sultan who broke the Mongols. Baibars commanded the forces that handed them their first major defeat at Ain Jalut in 1260, then murdered his own sultan and seized the throne. For seventeen years he crushed Crusader strongholds across the Levant and bent the eastern Mediterranean to Cairo's will.
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Sold into slavery during the Mongol invasions, this Turkic Kipchak rider ended up in the service of Egypt's Ayyubid sultan. By 1250 he was commanding the army that captured King Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade. A decade later he led the vanguard at Ain Jalut, shattering the Mongol advance — then orchestrated the assassination of Sultan Qutuz and took the throne himself. As sultan from 1260 to 1277, he systematically dismantled the Crusader states, taking Antioch in 1268, while playing the Mongol Ilkhanate against the Golden Horde to keep both at bay. His 1276 campaign into Nubia…
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