Alfonso Jordan
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Alfonso Jordan, also spelled Alfons Jordan or Alphonse Jourdain, was the Count of Tripoli, Count of Rouergue, and Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne.
Alfonso Jordan, on a historiated initial from the first cartulary of the city of Toulouse, 1205
Second Crusade
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The Second Crusade was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 to the Seljuk forces of Zengi. The county h
Alfonso Jordan
…1146 he took the cross (i.e., vowed to go on crusade) at a meeting in Vézelay called by Louis VII. In August 1147, he embarked for the near east on the Second Crusade. He lingered on the way in Italy and probably in Constantinople, where he may have met Emperor Manuel I. Alfonso finally arrived at Acre in 1148. He…
Illustration of the Battle of Inab by Jean Colombe from the Passages d'outremer by Sébastien Mamerot, c. 1473–1474
St Bernard in stained glass, from the Upper Rhine, c. 1450
The Siege of Lisbon by D. Afonso Henriques by Joaquim Rodrigues Braga (1840)
Zengid soldiers, armed with long swords and wearing Turkic military dress: the aqbiya turkiyya coat, tiraz armbands, boots and sharbush hat. Manuscript Kitab al-Aghani, 1218–1219, Mosul.