4: Second Crusade Flashcards
In December 1144, the Muslims recaptured…
The County of Edessa
Pope Eugene III proclaimed the second crusade on the…
1st December 1145
Bernard of Clairvaux began preaching the second crusade in…
March 1146
The first army contingent to enter the second crusade was the army of…
German King Conrad III
King Louis VII announced that France would join the crusade on the…
1st June 1146
King Conrad III and his army arrive at Constantinople in…
December 1146
Whilst travelling through Hungary, German crusaders…
Raid and pillage the cities and towns they pass
Crusaders capture Lisbon and appoint Gilbert of Hastings as bishop in…
October 1147
King Conrad III and his army are destroyed by Muslims in Dorylaeum on the…
25th October 1147
King Louis VII purchased passage to Antioch in March 1148 and left his forces in…
Attalia, where most of them were massacred by Muslims
On the 25th of May 1148 crusaders set out to capture Damascus led by…
Baldwin III and Louis VII
The crusader siege of Damascus only lasted until the…
28th July 1148
The crusader forces under Raymond of Antioch are destroyed in…
July 1149
Odo of Deuil wrote about the second crusade in his…
De Perfectione Ludovici VII in Orientum
The main leaders of the second crusade were…
King Conrad III, King Louis VIII, King Baldwin III, Raymond II of Tripoli, Raymond of Poitiers, and King Stephen of England
