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The Second Crusade (1147–1150) was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 to the forces of Zengi. The county had been founded during the First Crusade (1096–1099) by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1098.
1147 ( MCXLVII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1147th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 147th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 12th century, and the 8th year of the 1140s decade.
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
The siege of Lisbon of 1147 lasted from July 1 to October 25 when, after four months, the Moorish rulers agreed to surrender, primarily due to hunger within the city. Most of the crusaders settled in the newly captured city, but some of them set sail and continued to the Holy Land.
By 1147, the religious community of Saxony felt strongly that Wendish soil had been sanctified by these martyrs, and that the heathens—native or not—had no right to sacred land made holy by the blood of their martyred saints. Cape Arcona, on the island of Rugen, was seized by Valdemar in 1168.
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Introduction: The so-called Wendish Crusade of 1147 was actually part of the Second Crusade of the same time period. It was fought on German soil, largely by Saxon Germans (some Danes as well) against the pagan tribes of Wends.
