23-24 December
Zengi captures Edessa; a massacre of the population ensues; all captive Franks executed.
1145
1 December
Pope Eugenius II proclaims the Second Crusade.
1146
14 September
Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade;
November-December
Zengi dies;
Count of Edessa briefly recaptures Edessa before being driven out by Zengi’s son Nur ad-Din.
1147
May
Unsuccessful invasion of Hauran by Baldwin III;
mid-May
Second Crusade: departure of German crusaders under Conrad III;
11 June
Second Crusade: departure of French under King Louis VII;
17 October
Second Crusade: Iberian crusaders capture Almeria;
24 October
Second Crusade: Portuguese with Flemish/English support capture Lisbon;
25 October
Second Crusade: Seljuks obliterate most of Conrad’s army at the Second Battle of Dorylaeum.
1148
6 January
Second Crusade: Louis VII ambushed and suffers heavy losses;
March
Second Crusade: Louis VII abandons what is left of his army at Adalia and sails for Antioch with his clergy, household and wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine; quarrels with Raymond of Poitiers and continues to Jerusalem;
April-June
Second Crusade: arrival of the remnants of the Second Crusade under Conrad III and Louis VII;
