Chapter LIII

CURTHOSE AT THE CRUSADE:--Peter the Hermit--Success of his
preaching--Curthose and Atheling resolve to take part in the
Crusade--Rufus supplies them with money--Curthose's
popularity--Edgar Atheling does not go with Curthose--Atheling
sets out for Scotland, to dethrone Donald Bane--Curthose meets
the other princes at Constantinople--Curthose's valour--At
Antioch--Edgar Atheling joins Curthose--Atheling and Curthose
the terror of the Saracens--Election of the King of
Jerusalem--Curthose declines the honour--Death of Odo, Bishop of
Bayeux--Curthose at Conversano--The territory of
Conversano--Curthose marries Sybil, daughter of the Count of
Conversano--Waste of time