Siege of Lisbon

Siege of Lisbon
	Part of the Portuguese Reconquista; and the Second Crusade
	; The Conquest of Lisbon painting by Alfredo Roque Gameiro (1917)
Date	1 July – 25 October 1147
Location	Lisbon, Portugal
Result	Portuguese-Crusader victory
Belligerents
Portugal; Crusaders	Taifa of Badajoz
Commanders and leaders
Afonso I of Portugal; Hervey de Glanvill; Arnout IV, Count of Aarschot; Christian of Ghistelles; Simon of Dover; Andrew of London; Saher of Archelle; William Longsword	Unknown
Strength
20,000 7,000 Portuguese; 6,000 English; 5,000 Germans; 2,000 Flemings;	~15,000

The siege of Lisbon was a battle in the city of Lisbon. Portugal. The seige to place from 1 July to 25 October 1147. Portugal retook the city and removed the Moors who controlled it. The siege of Lisbon was one of the Christian victories of the Second Crusade.^[2]

Related pages[change | change source]

Siege of Lisbon (1142)

References[change | change source]

↑ H. V. Livermore (2 January 1966). A New History of Portugal. Cambridge University Press Archive. p. 57. GGKEY:RFTURZQG9XA.
↑ C. W. David, "The Authorship of the De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi", Speculum, 7:1 (1932), 50, citing Helmold's Chronica Slavorum in MGH, Scriptores, 11, 58: Hoc solum prospere cessit de universo opere, quod peregrinus patravit exercitus.

[Livermore1966-1] H. V. Livermore (2 January 1966). A New History of Portugal. Cambridge University Press Archive. p. 57. GGKEY:RFTURZQG9XA.

[2] C. W. David, "The Authorship of the De Expugnatione Lyxbonensi", Speculum, 7:1 (1932), 50, citing Helmold's Chronica Slavorum in MGH, Scriptores, 11, 58: Hoc solum prospere cessit de universo opere, quod peregrinus patravit exercitus.

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