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The Second Crusade was announced by Pope Eugene III, and was the first of the crusades to be led by European kings, namely Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, with help from a number of other European nobles. The armies of the two kings marched separately across Europe.
- 1147-1150
- (see § Aftermath)
- Iberia, Near East ( Anatolia, Levant ), Egypt
Jul 17, 2018 · The Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE) was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia which had fallen in 1144 CE to the Muslim Seljuk Turks.
- Mark Cartwright
He was involved in the failed Second Crusade with Louis VII, where he would fight and lose at Doryleum and would later fall ill and return to Constantinople. After recuperating, he went to Jerusalem but would experience a string of failed sieges.
In December 1146 Conrad took the cross, secured the election and coronation of his young son Henry as his successor, appointed Henry I, archbishop of Mainz, as his son’s guardian, and, in the autumn of 1147, set out for Palestine on the Second Crusade.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 9, 2023 · The Second Crusade (1147-1149), championed by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, was a military campaign triggered primarily by the fall of the County of Edessa at the hands of Imad ad-Din Zengi of Mosul, a very powerful Turkmen atabeg.
Unlike the First Crusade, however, the Second Crusade was led by two of Europe’s greatest rulers, King Louis VII of France and Emperor Conrad III of Germany. Louis enthusiastically supported the Crusade, but Conrad was reluctant at first and was won over only by the eloquence of St. Bernard.
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.
