NOUN
- a Crusade from 1145 to 1147 that failed because of internal disagreements among the crusaders and led to the loss of Jerusalem in 1187
How To Use Second Crusade In A Sentence
- Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed.
- The Second Crusade then provides a reference point for the role of clerics and warriors.
- Such was the alleged power of Mary's relics, and the repute of Vezelay in Christian Europe, that Bernard of Claircaux preached the Second Crusade from this basilica in 1146.
- The Second Crusade succeeded only in souring relations between the Crusader kingdoms, the Byzantines, and friendly Muslim rulers.
