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The Second Crusade (1145–1149) was the second major crusade launched from Europe. It was called in 1145, in response to the fall of the County of Edessa the previous year to the forces of Zengi . The county had been founded during the First Crusade (1095–1099) by Baldwin of Boulogne

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade . It lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre , was destroyed by the Mamluks . At first the kingdom was little more than a loose

The Siege of Damascus took place over four days in July 1148, during the Second Crusade . It ended in a decisive 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 Eugenius III and Bernard of Clairvaux

causes of this decline in his reign. [ 2 ] Contents 1 Accession to the throne 2 Second Crusade and Raynald of Châtillon 2.1 Prince of Antioch 2.2 Expedition against Konya 2.3 Arrival of the Crusaders 2.4 Cyprus invaded 2.5 Manuel in Antioch 3 Italian campaign 3

County of Edessa was the first of the crusader states to be established during and after the First Crusade . It was also the most northerly, the weakest, and the least populated; as such, it was subject to frequent attacks from the surrounding Muslim states ruled by the Ortoqids , Danishmends

Protestant Reformation ) against Muslims occupying the near east. Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095 in response to a call for aid from the Byzantine Emperor Alexus I to halt Muslim harassment and murder of Christians in the Holy Land . Their

Jerusalem met with recently-arrived crusaders from Europe, to decide on the best target for the crusade . 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