Wendish Crusade
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The Wendish Crusade was a religious military campaign in central and eastern Europe, initiated in 1147. As one of the Northern Crusades, it was led primarily by the Catholic Kingdom of Germany — a con
The Capture of the Wends
Henry's duchies Saxony and Bavaria
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian
Wendish Crusade
…German colonization and missionary activity in Wagria. The fall of Edessa in Syria in 1144 shocked Christendom, causing Pope Eugenius III and St. Bernard of Clairvaux to preach a Second Crusade to reinforce Outremer. While many south Germans volunteered to crusade in the Middle East, the north German Saxons were…
San Bernardo by Juan Correa de Vivar, held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Bernard exorcising a possession, altarpiece by Jörg Breu the Elder, c. 1500
Bernard holding a demon at his feet, oil on canvas by Marcello Baschenis, c. 1885
The abbey of Cluny as it would have looked in Bernard's time