Second Crusade

Reconquista authorized as a crusade
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1147 Apr 1

Reconquista authorized as a crusade

Viterbo, Italy

In the spring of 1147, the Pope authorized the expansion of the crusade into the Iberian peninsula, in the context of the Reconquista. He also authorized Alfonso VII of León and Castile to equate his campaigns against the Moors with the rest of the Second Crusade.

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