Failure of the Second Crusade
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- Failure of the Second Crusade
- Leadership
- Louis VII France and Conrad III Germany changing from Edessa to J
- 1ST Crusade had clear goals set by clear leaders - knew what they were doing
- Kings - had to go home in the end - different to 1st Crusade
- Selfish motivations? - chivalry, fame, glory, remission of sin?
- Conrad refused to help Raymond of Antioch v Turks bc affair with Eleanor of Aquitaine - instead went to J
- Louis VII France and Conrad III Germany changing from Edessa to J
- Goals
- 1ST Crusade had clear goals set by clear leaders - knew what they were doing
- 1145 Eugenius III set Edessa in "Bull Quantum Praedecessores" - Crusade went to J
- K of J B.III + Knights Templars changed to target Damascus - an ally of the Eastern Christians - split
- 11148 Council of Acre meet to decide where to attack
- East and West
- East allies with Damascus - West broke and attacked 1148
- Attack failed
- Conrad III blames Eastern C in his letter to Abott of Corvey
- "Treasonably asserted the city was impregnable"
- East allies with Damascus - West broke and attacked 1148
- Crusaders
- Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia - "they were rebellious and unbelieving" - no pure intention
- Wurzberg -"lusted after novelties" - no pure intention - not a just war - failure punishment from God
- Went to escape debt, crime, poverty to fight, no matter who against
- Muslim Unity
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- Leadership
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