Treaty of Tunis


the Treaty of Tunis was an agreement during the Eighth Crusade. it was signed on November 1270 between the Hafasid Sultan Muhammad I al-Mustansir and Crusaders shortly after death of Louis IX of France. The treaty guaranteed a truce between the two armies. The treaty was quite beneficial to Charles of Anjou, who received one-third of a war indemnity from the Tunisians, and was promised that Hohenstaufen refugees in the sultanate would be expelled. During this treaty, the parties agreed on cessation of hostilities, the release of captives, security for businessmen, The freedom of missionaries propagation and build churches in Tunisia, annual ransom payment by the Hafasid, and others.