<prompt> Fulk akanga atarisana nomuvengi mutsva uye ane ngozi zvikuru: Zengi atabeg weMosul, uyo akanga atora Aleppo uye akanga atarirawo kuDhamasiko; kubatana kwenyika nhatu idzi kungadai kwakava kurova kwakakomba kusimba rinokura reJerusarema. Kupindira kwenguva pfupi muna 11371138 nemutongi weByzantium John II Comnenus, uyo aida kusimbisa hutongi hweumambo pamusoro penyika dzese dzevapanduki, haana kuita chinhu kumisa kutyisidzira kwaZengi; muna 1139 Damascus neJerusalem vakaziva kuomarara kwekutyisidzira kune ese ari maviri, uye mubatanidzwa wakapedzwa uyo wakamisa kufambira mberi kwaZengi. Fulk akashandisa nguva iyi kuvaka nhare dzakawanda, kubatanidza Ibelin neKerak. Pashure porufu rwavaviri Fulk naMambo John mutsaona dzokuvhima dzakaparadzana muna 1143, Zengi akapinda ndokukunda Edessa  <response>: muna 1144. Mambokadzi Melisende, zvino mutongi womwanakomana wake mukuru Baldwin III, akagadza mupurisa mutsva, Manasses weHierges, kutungamirira hondo pashure porufu rwaFulk, asi Edessa haigoni kutorwazve, pasinei nokupondwa kwaZengi pachake muna 1146. Kuwa kweEdessa kwakakatyamadza Europe, uye Hondo yeChipiyaniso yeChipiri yakasvika muna 1148. 