Battle of Mount Cadmus

Battle of Mount Cadmus
Part of the Second Crusade

From a copy of the Passages d'outremer (c. 1490)
Date6 January 1148
Location
Pisidia
(modern-day Turkey)
Result Seljuk victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of France Sultanate of Rum
Commanders and leaders
Louis VII Mesud I
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses

heavy casualties,

including:
William de Warren
Everard of Breteuil
Manassas of Bulles
Gautier of Montjay
Reynauld of Tours
Itiers of Meingnac[1]
Unknown

The Battle of Mount Cadmus took place near Laodicea, at Chonae, on 6 January 1148, during the Second Crusade.[2] The French crusader army, led by Louis VII of France, was defeated by the Seljuks of Rum.

  1. ^ Phillips, Jonathan, The Second Crusade: Extending the frontiers of Christendom, (Yale University Press, 2007), 201.
  2. ^ Nicolle, David and Christa Hook, The Second Crusade 1148: Disaster Outside Damascus, (Osprey Publishing, 2009), 62.

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