monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger outside of Antioch was also destroyed during the campaign. The Hospitaller fortress Krak des Chevaliers fell three years later. While Louis IX of France launched the Eighth Crusade ostensibly to reverse these setbacks, it went to Tunis, instead of Constantinople, as Louis' brother, Charles of Anjou, had initially advised, though Charles I clearly benefited from the treaty between Antioch and Tunis that ultimately resulted from the Crusade. By the time of his death in 1277, Baibars had confined the Crusaders to a few strongholds along the coast and they were forced out of the Middle East by the beginning of the fourteenth century. The fall of Antioch was to prove as detrimental to the crusaders cause as its capture was instrumental in the initial success of the first Crusade. References Sources Conflicts in 1268 1268 in Asia 13th-century massacres Antioch 1268 Antioch 1268 Medieval Antioch Antioch 1268 Ant Military history of the Crusader states between the Seventh and Eighth Crusades Sieges of Antioch Antioch