Siege of Lisbon
1147 sieges involving Portugal
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]
Siege of Lisbon | |||||||
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Part of the Portuguese Reconquista and the Second Crusade | |||||||
![]() The Conquest of Lisbon painting by Alfredo Roque Gameiro (1917) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() ![]() | 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
| ~15,000 |
Related pages
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change- ↑ 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.