Departure of the Second Crusade

Timeline

1. 1147Regensburg · GermanyConrad III assembled an army of about 20,000 to 25,000 in Germany and advanced through Hungary toward the Byzantine frontier, as one of the main land forces of the Second Crusade.
2. 1147Saint-Denis · FranceLouis VII set out with his army after receiving a blessing at the Basilica of Saint-Denis, accompanied by Queen Eleanor; the French army numbered about 50,000 and advanced eastward through Champagne and Lorraine.
3. 1147Constantinople · ByzantineThe two crusader forces successively reached the Byzantine frontier and the vicinity of Constantinople, negotiated with Manuel I and obtained arrangements to cross the strait, as the crusade formally entered the Anatolian theater.