2ND XDE DATES 1 Flashcards
Zengi of Mosul and Aleppo takes Edessa
1144, 24 December
Eugenius III becomes pope
1145, February
Quantum praedecessores, crusade appeal of Eugenius III, first issued
1145, 1 December
Council at Vézelay; Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the second Crusade to King Louis VII and the French Nobility
1146, 31 March
Zengi dies, is succeeded by Nur ad-Din
1146, 14 September
Bernard of Clairvaux tours Flanders and the Rhineland recruiting men for the Crusade
1146, September – 1147, January
King Conrad III of Germany takes the cross
1146, 24 December
Fleet of the Anglo-Norman, Flemish and Rhinelanders sets out for the Holy Land via Lisbon
1147, May
Armies of Conrad III and Louis VII sets out for the Levant
1147, June
Siege of Lisbon begins
1147, 28 June
Wendish Crusade by Germans against the Polabian Slavs, or “Wends”, living east of the Elbe river
1147, July – September
Genoese and Catalan fleet capture Almeria in southern Spain
1147, 17 October
Lisbon captured by Second Crusaders
1147, 21 October
Armies of the Second Crusade arrive at Constantinople
1147, September – October
The second Battle of Dorylaeum; the German crusader forces of Conrad III almost totally destroyed by the Seljuk Turks led by Sultan Mesud I
1147, 25 October