If you wre a crusader in the 2nd crusade

before I was training long and hard to work for the title I now posses,

being that of a knight, I was always quite dedicated to my Heavenly

Lord. That is why as soon as I was old enough and finally dubbed a

knight I went straight to the head guys and signed up for the second

crusade. You see, I was religiously motivated to win this holy war, and

take back our rightfully Christian Holy Land.

After the successful first crusade led and issued by Pope Urban

II, a second was soon needed. In 1146, the Crusade principality of

Edessa fell to the resurgent Muslims. As a result, Pope Eugene II

called for a new crusade, the Second. He was enthusiastically

supported in this call by his mentor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. So, with

everything in place and we, the crusaders, were ready to go! After all,

I were promised a remission of my sins in return for risking my life for

been on the defensive since 1169. Baldwin V of Jerusalem died in

chance to visit the Holy Lands as a sort of pilgrimage and in the hopes

that attack always been a Christian ally. While most of my fellow

August 1186, and his mother and aunt fought for control of Jerusalem,

it, my life as a crusader and a knight. I fought for my God, but we

1148.The downfall of the second crusade was due to poor strategic

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