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May 16, 2024 · Also known as. English. Conrad III of Germany. Hohenstaufen dynasty king (r. 1138–1152) Konrad III. Conrad III. Konrad III König Staufer.
The Battle of Constantinople in 1147 was a large-scale clash between the forces of the Byzantine Empire and the German crusaders of the Second Crusade, led by Conrad III of Germany, fought on the outskirts of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos was deeply concerned by the presence of a large and unruly ...
Apr 22, 2024 · The crusade of King Conrad III of Germany: warfare and diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146–1148 by Jason T. Roche (Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East Series, 13), Turnhout, Brepols, 2021, 365 pp., €94 (hardback & e-book), ISBN: 978 2 503 53038 3.
The Second Crusade was led by King Louis VII of France and Emperor Conrad III of Germany. Crusades - Holy Land, Jerusalem, Saladin | Britannica Crusades - Holy Land, Jerusalem, Saladin: In 1145 Pope Eugenius III issued a formal Crusade bull, Quantum praedecessores, which had provisions designed to protect Crusaders' families and property.
Among crusades scholars, Conrad III, king of Germany (r. 1138 to 1152), is best known as a leader of the Second Crusade. However, in 1124 - more than two decades earlier - he set out for Jerusalem of his own accord. His motivations for doing so are not clear. Though Conrad’s grandfather, Emperor Henry IV (likely influenced by the prestige of ...
Conrad III ( German: Konrad; Italian: Corrado; 1093 or 1094 – 15 February 1152) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was from 1116 to 1120 Duke of Franconia, from 1127 to 1135 anti-king of his predecessor Lothair III, and from 1138 until his death in 1152 King of the Romans in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Duke Frederick I of Swabia and ...
Summary. This book represents the first work of history dedicated to the crusade of King Conrad III of Germany (1146–48), emperor-elect of the Western Roman Empire and the most powerful man yet to assume the Cross. Even so, many of the people following the king on the Second Crusade were dead before they reached Constantinople and their ranks ...
