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Bernard preaches the Second Crusade (1146)
On the Crusades map as “Bernard preaches the cross”
31 Mar 1146 — Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vézelay before King Louis VII and a vast crowd. Two royal armies will set out for the east. Almost none of their men will return home.
When 31 Mar 1146 Type Turning point Chapter Second Crusade (chapter 5 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291 TURNING POINT · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated polygons selected; local transfers and shared frontier edges derived with documented historical event corrections. Simon Barton, The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Published summary consulted for dated conquests; no map copied Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 2014. Facts consulted; no prose or image copied Natural Earth. Public domain OpenStax, World History Volume 1. CC BY 4.0 The loss of Edessa city in 1144 uses the first subsequent source remainder, retaining the surviving western county territory.
At some ports, source coastlines have offsets of several kilometers at their resolution. The original polygons are preserved, and the review record gives explicit coastal anchor tolerances.
Chapter anchor and source snapshot date remain separate: 1147 / 1144
reconstruction: 1028–1325 · reconstruction: 1040–1235 · reconstruction: 1066–1187 · reconstruction: 1099–1168 · reconstruction: 1099–1235 · reconstruction: 1111–1151 · reconstruction: 1139–1146 · reconstruction: 1139–1151 · reconstruction: 1144 · reconstruction: 1147–1151 reference for post-December1144 · reconstruction: 990–1146 · reconstruction: December1144 · vector: 1010–1151 · vector: 1018–1176 · vector: 1018–1205 · vector: 1040–1146 · vector: 1040–1191 · vector: 1056–1146 · vector: 1056–1191 · vector: 1066–1146 · vector: 1066–1168 · vector: 1072–1235 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1085–1146 · vector: 1085–1151 · vector: 1085–1187 · vector: 1094–1146 · vector: 1094–1168 · vector: 1094–1235 · vector: 1099–1146 · vector: 1099–1151 · vector: 1099–1226 · vector: 1111–1146 · vector: 1111–1176 · vector: 1111–1187 · vector: 1126–1151 · vector: 1126–1168 · vector: 1139–1146 · vector: 1139–1151 · vector: 1139–1168 · vector: 1139–1176 · vector: 1139–1187 · vector: 1139–1201 · vector: 1139–1226 · vector: 1144
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