The siege of Lisbon (Second Crusade) 1147
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- The Siege of Lisbon
- Strategy
- Take Lisbon
- Sail to Jerusalem
- help recapture Edessa
- Participants
- HRE
- Flanders and Boulogne
- French
- Normandy
- Brittany
- Scotland
- England
- East Anglia
- Kent
- London
- Lincolnshire
- Alfonso
- Motives
- No great nobles
- Urban elites and merchants
- booty
- trading oportunities
- Urban elites and merchants
- Veterans of a previous Lisbon attack
- Previous crusade to East
- Religion (Jerusalem)
- trading privileges
- No great nobles
- Why?
- in Portugal
- occupied by 'Moors'
- kill infidel
- occupied by 'Moors'
- Pope did not specifically authorise
- allowed similar expedition
- Iberia
- Lisbon= a just was
- did not replace vow to go to Jerusalem
- Bernard changed penance rule
- allowed similar expedition
- in Portugal
- Lisbon taken late Oct 1147
- Inhabitants starved as Crusaders surrounded Lisbon
- Muslims surrendered
- Stayed winter in Lisbon
- sail to Jerusalem
- Feb 1148
- sail to Jerusalem
- Inhabitants starved as Crusaders surrounded Lisbon
- Strategy
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