Innocent II rebuked William, and threatened to place Tyre directly under the authority of Rome, or transfer it to the Latin patriarch of Antioch.
In June, Fulk attended the Council of Acre, where the decision was made to attack Damascus, which led to the failure of the Second Crusade.
In 1149 Fulk consecrated the newly renovated Holy Sepulchre, which had been undergoing reorganization and expansion during the previous 50 years of crusader rule.
In 1152, Fulk intervened in the dispute between Queen Melisende and her son King Baldwin III, who wished to assume rule upon reaching the age of majority in 1148.
Fulk and the other ecclesiastical prelates of Outremer travelled to Rome to complain directly to Pope Hadrian IV.