Book contents
- Frontmatter
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- I A FLOATING REPUBLIC
- II THE EXPULSION OF MOGAHID FROM SARDINIA
- III THE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST PALERMO AND MEHDIA
- IV THE FIRST CRUSADE
- V THE BALEARIC EXPEDITION
- VI WAR WITH GENOA
- VII THE WAR WITH THE NORMANS
- VIII INTO THE VORTEX
- IX PISAN COLONIES
- X FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
- XI EXPULSION OF THE GENOESE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- XII BARISONE OF ARBOREA
- XIII RAINALD OF COLOGNE
- XIV GENOA AND LUCCA AGAINST PISA
- XV CHRISTIAN OF MAYENCE
- XVI THE COMMUNES DEPRIVED OF THEIR CONTADI
- XVII PISA AND THE EMPEROR HENRY VI
- XVIII ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
- XIX PISA UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSULS
- XX CONSORTERIE GENTILIZIE
- XXI FROM CONSULS TO POTESTA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- I A FLOATING REPUBLIC
- II THE EXPULSION OF MOGAHID FROM SARDINIA
- III THE EXPEDITIONS AGAINST PALERMO AND MEHDIA
- IV THE FIRST CRUSADE
- V THE BALEARIC EXPEDITION
- VI WAR WITH GENOA
- VII THE WAR WITH THE NORMANS
- VIII INTO THE VORTEX
- IX PISAN COLONIES
- X FREDERICK BARBAROSSA
- XI EXPULSION OF THE GENOESE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
- XII BARISONE OF ARBOREA
- XIII RAINALD OF COLOGNE
- XIV GENOA AND LUCCA AGAINST PISA
- XV CHRISTIAN OF MAYENCE
- XVI THE COMMUNES DEPRIVED OF THEIR CONTADI
- XVII PISA AND THE EMPEROR HENRY VI
- XVIII ‘THE GREAT REFUSAL’
- XIX PISA UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSULS
- XX CONSORTERIE GENTILIZIE
- XXI FROM CONSULS TO POTESTA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
In 1146 tidings of the fall of Edessa reached Italy; a new crusade was preached by St Bernard of Clairvaux, and Pope Eugenius III, journeying northward through Lucca and Pisa, invoked the assistance of the faithful. At Whitsuntide, 1147, at St Denis, he presented a scrip and staff to the French king, as the emblems of his pilgrimage. Both Louis VII and Conrad III took the Cross, and at Metz the French were joined by the English and Normans under Bishop Arnulf of Lisieux. According to Roncioni the Pisans sent “a passing great fleet”; while Sardo informs us that they were accompanied by the Genoese. Such fables are, however, unworthy of credit, being attributable to the patriotic fantasy of a later age. Neither Pisans nor Genoese had any share in the second crusade. The latter were fully occupied with their expedition against Almeria and Tortosa; the former, though doubtless ready to lend an ear to the exhortations of a pope who was not only a fellow-citizen but had also shown his good will towards them by confirming the jurisdictional rights of their archbishops over Sardinia and Corsica, were far too much hampered by their war with Lucca to be able to take any effective part in distant enterprises.
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- A History of PisaEleventh and Twelfth Centuries, pp. 107 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1921