* Confronted with important financial difficulty due to the expenses of its Spanish crusade, the Republic of Genoa has to sell the city of Tortosa to the count of Barcelona, which had been conquered in 1148 during that same crusade.

This crusade did not reach Jerusalem until 1148, and in the meantime Zengi was assassinated in 1146.

After the failure of the crusade at the Siege of Damascus in 1148, Louis returned to France, followed by Everard, who was in charge of the king's treasury.

This crusade was led by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, but by 1148 it had ended in disaster, and Edessa was never recovered.

In 1148 news reached Damascus of a new crusade, called in response to Zengi's capture of Edessa in 1145.

But in 1148 Alphonse had finally arrived at Acre.

Louis VII and his army finally reached the Holy Land in 1148.

They were weakened by the invasion of the Banu Hilal tribes in the second half of the 11th century and finally destroyed by Sicilian Normans in 1148.

The fall of Edessa shocked Europe, and a Second Crusade arrived in 1148.

In 1148, the Second Crusade arrived in Syria, led by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany.

In response to the fall of Edessa, the Second Crusade arrived in Jerusalem in 1148.

Louis ' subsequent assault on Damascus with his remaining army, fortified by King Conrad and Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1148 achieved comparatively little.

* John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem and Latin Emperor of Constantinople ( b. c. 1148 )

* John of Brienne ( c. 1148 – 1237 ), king of Jerusalem

The section of the crusading army led by the bishop was decimated, but Otto reached Jerusalem, and returned to Bavaria in 1148 or 1149.

He carried a letter of recommendation from Bernard of Clairvaux addressed to Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ; he is listed among the notables present at the assembly held by Baldwin III of Jerusalem at Acre on 24 June 1148.

In 1148 the lord of Oultrejordain was involved in the decision to attack Damascus during the Second Crusade, despite the truce between Jerusalem and Damascus that was vital to the survival of the kingdom and especially the lordship.

Louis and Conrad later joined with the army of Jerusalem at the unsuccessful Siege of Damascus in 1148.

He led the crossing of the Maeander River in Anatolia and fought at the Battla of Attalya in 1148, and after arriving in the crusader Kingdom he participated in the Council of Acre, where the ill-fated decision to attack Damascus was made.

Subsequent decadence led to a reform in 1148 promoted by the abbot of Saint-Denis, Suger, then regent of France.

The Ghaznavid dynasty was defeated in 1148 by the Ghurids from Ghor, but the Ghaznavid Sultans continued to live in Ghazni as the ' Nasher ' until the early 20th century.

Nur ad-Din had taken control of Damascus in 1154, six years after the disastrous siege of Damascus by the Second Crusade in 1148.

However, despite being distracted by a Cuman attack in the Balkans, in 1148 Manuel enlisted the alliance of Conrad III of Germany, and the help of the Venetians, who quickly defeated Roger with their powerful fleet.

In 1148, Matilda and Henry returned to Normandy, following the death of Robert of Gloucester, and the reconquest of Normandy by Geoffrey.

An assistant to the Archbishop of Gniezno is mentioned residing in the town in 1123 and the Diocese of Włocławek () in Kuyavia was first mentioned in a bull issued by Pope Eugene III in 1148.

After more than 400 years of Muslim rule, the city was conquered by the Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona in 1148, as part of the Second Crusade.

After the conquest by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, in 1148, it became a residence of the Montcada and the Knights Templar, and from the 13th century it became a royal mansion.

In 1148 the town was granted a charter by King Stephen.

Later in his reign, he formed a liaison with Urraca Fernández, widow of count Rodrigo Martínez and daughter of Fernando Garcés de Hita, an apparent grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre, having a daughter Stephanie the Unfortunate ( 1148 – 1180 ), who was killed by her jealous husband, Fernán Ruiz de Castro.

The first creation dates from 1138, when the Earldom of Pembroke was conferred by King Stephen on Gilbert de Clare ( d. 1148 ), son of Gilbert Fitz-Richard, who possessed the Lordship of Strigul ( Estrighoiel, in Domesday Book ), the modern Chepstow.

An early motte and bailey or ringwork Norman castle was built on the Framlingham site by 1148, but this was destroyed by Henry II of England in the aftermath of the revolt of 1173-4.

Although to first documentary reference to a castle at Framlingham occurs in 1148, the actual date of its construction is uncertain and three possible options have been suggested by academics.

* Moznayim ( 1140 ), chiefly an explanation of the terms used in Hebrew grammar ; as early as 1148 it was incorporated by Judah Hadassi in his Eshkol ha-Kofer, with no mention of Ibn Ezra ( see " Monatsschrift ," xl.

Along with these consecrations, Theobald's legal efforts enabled him to withstand the attempts of Bernard to turn St David's into an archbishopric, and when Bernard was succeeded by David fitzGerald in 1148, Theobald secured the new bishop's profession of obedience to Canterbury, thus ending the efforts to remove Wales from Canterbury's jurisdiction.

In 1148 he was present at the Council of Reims, presided over by Pope Eugene III, and was probably presented by Bernard of Clairvaux to Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, under whose sponsorship he returned to England about 1153, having spent some time in Rome as secretary to the English pope Adrian IV, Nicholas Breakspear.

William was present as a witness when three charters were issued by Stephen at Lewes dated to the years 1148 – 53, therefore it appears that he remained loyal to the king until the Treaty of Wallingford ended the hostilities.

* Kyūan 4, in the 6th month ( 1148: The imperial palace was consumed by flames.

** “ The Trial ,” written by John Wagner, art by Simon Davis, in 2000 AD # 1148 – 1150 ( 1999 )

During his time Oitir Mac mic Oitir, one of the Hebridean nobles, took Dublin by force and held it for six years before his assassination in 1148.

Thornton Abbey was founded as a priory in 1139 by William le Gros, the Earl of Yorkshire, and raised to the status of Abbey in 1148.

* 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.

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