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The siege of Damascus took place between 24 and 28 July 1148, during the Second Crusade.It ended in a crusader defeat and led to the disintegration of the crusade. The two main Christian forces that marched to the Holy Land in response to Pope Eugene III and Bernard of Clairvaux's call for the Second Crusade were led by Kings Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany.
Conrad III was considered to be a brave knight, though often described as indecisive in moments of crisis. [23] Louis VII was a devout Christian with a sensitive side who was often attacked by contemporaries like Bernard of Clairvaux for being more in love with his wife Eleanor than he was interested in war or politics. [24]
Conrad, after a long siege, defeated the latter at Weinsberg in December 1140, and in May 1142 a peace agreement was reached in Frankfurt. [9] In the same year, Conrad entered Bohemia to reinstate his brother-in-law Vladislav II as Duke. The attempt to do the same with another brother-in-law, the Polish prince Ladislaus the Exile, failed ...
Crusade of Conrad III 1124 The crusade was an expedition by Conrad III of Germany discussed by Ekkehard of Aura in his Chronicon universale. [349] [350] Crusade against John III Doukas Vatatzes 1235–1237 Following the Siege of Constantinople in 1235, Pope Gregory IX called for a crusade against John III Doukas Vatatzes. In 1237, he notified ...
Conrad of Montferrat (Italian: Corrado del Monferrato; Piedmontese: Conrà ëd Monfrà) (c. 1146 – 28 April 1192) was a nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto King of Jerusalem (as Conrad I ) by virtue of his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem from 24 November 1190, but officially elected only in ...
The Second Crusade had been called after the fall of Edessa to Zengi in 1144. In 1147, armies led by Conrad III of Germany and Louis VII of France began their separate journeys to the east; after passing through Constantinople, Conrad suffered a heavy defeat in Anatolia, and retreated to meet Louis at Nicaea.