He wanted to raise a number of armed men, and to go to the Crusade.

He could not do so without money.

He had no money; and he sold his dominions to his brother, the Red King, for five years.

With the large sum he thus obtained, he fitted out his Crusaders gallantly, and went away to Jerusalem in martial state.

The Red King, who made money out of everything, stayed at home, busily squeezing more money out of Normans and English.
After three years of great hardship and suffering--from shipwreck at sea; from travel in strange lands; from hunger, thirst, and fever, upon the burning sands of the desert; and from the fury of the Turks--the valiant Crusaders got possession of Our Saviour's tomb.