Eastern front: Western front: The Second Crusade was announced by Pope Eugene III, and was the first of the crusades to be led by European kings, namely Louis ... Battle of Inab · Conrad III of Germany · Battle of Constantinople (1147) · Tortosa

17 июл. 2018 г. · The Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE) was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in ...

The Second Crusade was led by two of Europe's greatest rulers, King Louis VII of France and Emperor Conrad III of Germany.

22 мая 2022 г. · From 24-28 July 1148, the two armies, led by Conrad III and Louis VII respectively, began to besiege the Muslim city of Damascus, in Syria.

King Conrad III of Germany and King Louis VII of France personally led the crusader forces. Both the German and the French forces sustained heavy losses during ...

There was great disorder in Saxony, Bavaria, and Burgundy. In December 1146 Conrad took the cross, secured the election and coronation of his young son Henry ...

A Cistercian abbot, Bernard of Clairvaux, convinced Conrad III of Germany to go on crusade as well. Louis VII and Conrad III arrived in Constantinople in 1147.

The Second Crusade · The preaching of the famous Bernard of Clairvaux galvanized the masses and persuaded the greatest princes of the West to take up the cross.

So, as the First Crusade had its genesis at Clermont, the Second truly began at Vezelay. Louis wrote to Emperor Manuel, King Conrad of Germany, Geza of Hungary, ...