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1145 ( MCXLV ) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1145th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 145th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 12th century, and the 6th year of the 1140s decade. As of the start of 1145, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian ...
Religion. February 15 – Pope Lucius II dies at Rome after having been hit by a stone missile during the fighting against Senatorial forces led by Giordano Pierleoni. He is succeeded after an 11-month pontificate by Eugene III who becomes the 167th pope of the Catholic Church. Eugene is forced into exile by Arnold of Brescia.
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1140. December – The Anarchy: Earl Ranulf of Chester captures Lincoln. [1] Dryburgh Abbey founded. [1] 1141. 2 February – The Anarchy: At the First Battle of Lincoln, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Empress Matilda wrest control of the throne from King Stephen, who is captured and imprisoned.
- Background: The Second Crusade
- The Great City of Damascus
- The Siege
- Causes of The Failure
- Aftermath
The Second Crusade 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. Edessa was an important commercial and cultural centre and had been in Christian hands since the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE). However, when Pope Eugenius III (r...
Although Damascus, located in southwest Syria, had once been an ally of the Crusader-led Kingdom of Jerusalem, the shifting loyalties between the various Muslim states in the Levant meant this fact held no guarantee for the future and, faced with the necessity to take at least one major city or go home as complete failures, Damascus was as good a c...
When news of the Crusader army's approach reached Mu'in al-Din, the commander set about spoiling all wells and water sources on the invaders' probable approach route. The Crusader army, split into three contingents with one each led by Louis VII, Conrad III, and Baldwin III of Jerusalem (r. 1143-1163 CE), arrived at Damascus on 24 July 1148 CE and ...
The causes of the Crusader's failure were multiple: 1. the difficulties presented by the defences - principally the terrain and sheer size of the city 2. the hit-and-run guerrilla tactics of the defenders and their tenacity 3. the continued harassment from the local militia in the outlying territories of Damascus 4. and the serious lack of food and...
Nur ad-Din, as the Crusaders no doubt had feared, continued to consolidate his empire, and he took Antioch on 29 June 1149 CE after the battle of Inab, beheading its ruler Raymond of Antioch. Raymond, the Count of Edessa, was captured and imprisoned, and the Latin state of Edessa was eliminated by 1150 CE. Next, Nur ad-Din took over Damascus in Apr...
- Mark Cartwright
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The fall of Edessa, seen here on the right of this map (c.1140), was the proximate cause of the Second Crusade. The Second Crusade ( 1145 – 1149) was the second major crusade launched from Europe, called in 1145 in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year. Edessa was the first of the Crusader states to have been founded ...
