Chapter V: Book IV: A.d. 1099-1103

The Crusaders take their departure from Antioch, and march
for Palestine—Siege of Archas—Pons de Balasu—Arnold de
Rohés, and his disbelief in prodigies—Fanaticism, of
Barthélemi—The holy lance—Ordeal by fire—Hatred of the
Latins towards the Greeks—Caliph of Cairo—Emir of Tripoli
defeated—Palestine—Phœnicia—Plain of Berytus—Serpents—
Ptolemaïs—Emmaus and Bethlehem—Alarm from an eclipse—The
city of Jerusalem—Enthusiasm of the Crusaders on first
beholding it—Siege of Jerusalem—Indignities heaped upon
the Christians—Fountain of Siloë—The Genoese fleet enter
the port of Jaffa—Gaston de Béarn—Mount of Olives—Address
of Arnold de Rohés—Speech of Peter the Hermit to the
Crusaders—Tower of Tancred—Machines used at the siege of
Jerusalem—The Saracen magicians—Miraculous appearance of
St. George—The Crusaders enter Jerusalem by storm—Creton
Rheimhault—Everard de Puysaie—Mosque of Omar—Slaughter of
the Mussulmans, and pious fervour of the Christians—
Destruction of the Jews—Wealth found in Jerusalem—
Discovery of the “true cross”—Speech of the count of
Flanders—Prophetic visions—Godfrey elected king of
Jerusalem—Rejoicings among the Christians, and despair of
the Mussulmans—Elegy of Modhaffer Abyverdy—Afdhal, the
Mussulman commander—Signal defeat of the Saracens at
Ascalon—Tasso—Godfrey’s quarrel with Raymond—Siege of
Ascalon—Riou de Loheac—Stephen de Salviac—Peter de Salviac
—Death of Gaston de Béarn—Peter the Hermit and many of the
Christian leaders return to Europe—William IX., count of
Flanders, sets out for the East—William, count de Nevers,
defeated by the Turks—Eude, duke of Burgundy, slain—
Conrad, marshal of Henry I. of Germany—Wolf IX., duke of
Bavaria—Humbert II., count of Savoy, departs for the Holy
Land—Alexius, emperor of Constantinople, opposes the
Crusaders—City of Ancyra captured—The Crusaders defeated
by the Turks—Capture of Tortosa—Invasions of the Tartars
—Tasso’s “Jerusalem Delivered”—Ordinances of Gaston de
Béarn pp. 187-264.