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[1]	~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]

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.