His second and last was more costly still.

Near the ruins of Carthage, where he was in conflict with a Mohometan band, he was stricken with fever and died (1270).
Louis's brother, Charles of Anjou, is said to have led him into this fatal attempt, for his own purposes.

Charles, of very different memory, was at this time, by invitation of the pope, occupying the double throne of Naples and Sicily.

And he it was who provoked by his cruelties that frightful outbreak known as the "Sicilian Vespers," in 1283.
The Crusades had lasted from 1095 to 1270.

The purpose for which they were undertaken had signally failed.