Second Crusade

Second Crusade

Part of the Crusades

Hand colored map of the Near East. At the top is the Byzantine Empire, which encircles the Seljuq Turks from north, west and south. Below those two groups are the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on the west and the County of Edessa on the east. Stretching along the coast below them are the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, chief of the Catholic Crusader states. To the east of the coast is Emirate of Damascus and the Dominion of the Atabeks. At the bottom of the map is the Caliphate of Cairo.

Edessa, seen here on the right of this map (c. 1140), was recaptured by the Turks. This was the primary cause of the Second Crusade.

Date	1147–1149
Location	Iberia, Near East (Anatolia, Levant, Palestine), Egypt
Result	Decisive Seljuk Turks victory in Anatolia Decisive Crusader victories in Iberia Failure to recreate the County of Edessa Peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks Beginning of crusader advances into Egypt
Territorial changes	Lisbon captured by the Portuguese and Tortosa captured by the Catalans, Wagria and Polabia captured by Saxon Crusaders, otherwise status quo ante bellum

Belligerents

Crusader States

Military Orders

Western front (Reconquista)

Wendish Crusade

Nizari Ismailis of Syria

Western front:

Almoravids

Wendish allies:

Duchy of Pomerania

Commanders and leaders

Melisende of Jerusalem
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Raymond II of Tripoli
Raymond of Poitiers
Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thoros II of Armenia
Raynald of Châtillon
Theodwin
Afonso I of Portugal
Alfonso VII of León and Castile
Ramon Berenguer IV
Conrad III of Germany
Ottokar III of Styria
Manuel I Komnenos
Thierry of Alsace
Stephen, King of England
Geoffrey V of Anjou
Vladislaus II of Bohemia
Robert de Craon
Everard des Barres
Vladislaus II the Exile
Henry the Lion
Albert the Bear
Canute V of Denmark
Sweyn III of Denmark
Frederick I Barbarossa
Anselm of Havelberg
Conrad the Great
Otto of Freising
Alfonso Jordan
Matthias I
Godfrey III
Henry Jasomirgott
Adolf II of Holstein

Roger II of Sicily

Eastern front:
Mesud I
Imad ad-Din Zengi
Nur ad-Din
Saif ad-Din Ghazi I
Al-Muqtafi
Al-Hafiz

Western front:
Tashfin ibn Ali
Ibrahim ibn Tashfin
Ishaq ibn Ali
Abd al-Mu'min

Wends and allies:

Niklot
Pribislav of Wagria
Ratibor I of Pomerania

Strength

Germans: 20,000 men
French: 15,000 men
All Crusaders: 200.000

Crusader States

Military Orders

Western front (Reconquista)

Wendish Crusade

Western front:

Wendish allies:

Melisende of Jerusalem
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Raymond II of Tripoli
Raymond of Poitiers
Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine
Thoros II of Armenia
Raynald of Châtillon
Theodwin
Afonso I of Portugal
Alfonso VII of León and Castile
Ramon Berenguer IV
Conrad III of Germany
Ottokar III of Styria
Manuel I Komnenos
Thierry of Alsace
Stephen, King of England
Geoffrey V of Anjou
Vladislaus II of Bohemia
Robert de Craon
Everard des Barres
Vladislaus II the Exile
Henry the Lion
Albert the Bear
Canute V of Denmark
Sweyn III of Denmark
Frederick I Barbarossa
Anselm of Havelberg
Conrad the Great
Otto of Freising
Alfonso Jordan
Matthias I
Godfrey III
Henry Jasomirgott
Adolf II of Holstein

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