The truce between Richard I and Saladin at the end of the Third Crusade, 1192. The terms provided for the destruction of Ascalon's fortifications, allowed unarmed Christian pilgrims and merchants access to Jerusalem, and initiated a three-year truce, Richard departed the Holy Land on 2 October. Richard I, 1157 - 1199. King of England. An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, aka Saladin, 1137 - 1193. First sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.