Editing Pope Alexander II (section)

=== Crusade against the Moors ===
Also in the same year, Alexander called for the [[Crusade of Barbastro]] against the Moors in Spain.<ref>Jonathan P. Phillips, ''The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom'', St. Edmundsbury Press Ltd., 2007, p. 246.</ref><ref>Jonathan P. Phillips, ''The Second Crusade: Walking to Santiago de Compostela'', Penn State University Press, 1996, p. 101.</ref> Alexander II issued orders to the Bishops of Narbonne, instructing crusaders en route "that you protect the Jews who live among you, so that they may not be killed by those who are setting out for Spain against the Saracens ... for the situation of the Jews is greatly different from that of the Saracens. One may justly fight against those [the Saracens] who persecute Christians and drive them from their towns and their own homes."<ref>{{Cite book|title = Reconquest and crusade in medieval Spain|last = O'Callaghan|first = Joseph|publisher = Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press|year = 2003|isbn = 978-0-8122-3696-5|pages = 25}}</ref>