XXIV. BAD BAIL-OUTS:  THE SECOND AND THIRD CRUSADES

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King Louis VII

Eleanor:  Sometimes I think I’m married to a monk.

Abbot Suger of St. Denis

Pope Eugenius III

St. Bernard of Clairvaux at Vézelay

Dadulf

Pope Innocent IV

Archbishop Heinrich of Mainz:  If the Church did not hope that they would believe and be converted, it would seem useless and vain for her to pray for them.

Conrad III of Germany

Roger II of Sicily

Emperor Manuel I Comnenus

Bishop Otto of Friesing

Dorylaeum

Raymond of Antioch

Aleppo

Raymond of Tripoli

King  Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Damascus; River Barada

Nur ad-Din

Amaury; Baldwin IV

Salah al-Din Jusuf ibn Ayyub

Fatimid caliph

Yemen

Battle of Ascalon, Baldwin IV & 600

Mamelukes

Battles of Banyas Forest and Litani River

Guy de Lusignan and Sibyl (Sibylla)

Siege of Tiberias

Countess Eschiva

Horns of Hattim

Master Gerard de Ridefort (for a Templar fort in Gaza)

Acre, Jaffa, (Tyre), Sidon, Beirut, Ascalon, Gaza

Kerak, Safad, Belvoir