Fall of the crusader city of Edessa
December 24, 1144: The capital of the crusader County of Edessa fell to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo. As a direct response to this, Pope Eugene III issued the papal bull ‘Quantum praedecessores’ calling for the Second Crusade. That crusade was led by Louis VII ofContinue Reading
