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The Crusades >> The Second Crusade
In Brief~
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- Dec, 1144: Zengi takes Edessa, sparking the Second
Crusade
- Dec, 1145: Pope Eugenius III issues Quantum
praedecessores to initiate the Second Crusade
- 1146: Bernard of Clairvaux participates in
preaching the crusade
- Oct, 1147: Lisbon falls to the crusaders and
Portuguese; Almeria falls to the Spanish
- Jul 1148: King Louis VII of France, Queen Eleanor of
Aquitaine, and Emperor Conrad III in the East join the Second
Crusade
- Sep, 1144: Zengi is assassinated; Nur ad-Din
acceedes to Aleppo
- Jul 15, 1149: Dedication of the Crusader Church of
the Holy Sepulchre
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Introduction to the
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