RRR: Correspondence/envoy
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year: 1098
initiator: Bohemond of Taranto, Count Raymond of St Gilles, Duke Godfrey of Bouillon of Lorraine, Count Robert of Normandy, Count Robert of Flanders and Count Eustace of Boulogne
recipient: Pope Urban II
text: Sept. 11. Antioch. Bohemond [of Taranto], Count Raymond [of St Gilles], Duke Godfrey [of Bouillon] of Lorraine, Count Robert of Normandy, Count Robert of Flanders and Count Eustace of Boulogne write to Pope Urban II. They inform him of their triumphs as Hierosolymitani Iesu Christi against the Turci, their capture of Nicaea, their victories at Dorylaeum [in valle Dorotillae] and over armies of relief during their siege of Antioch, their seizure of Antioch on 3 June, their investment by a great Muslim army, the discovery of the relic of the Holy Lance, their victory over the Muslims in the battle of Antioch on 28 June, and the death of the papal legate, the bishop of Le Puy, on 1 August. They call on Pope Urban, as the initiator of the crusade, to come out himself and complete what he had begun, occupy St Peter’s original cathedral, eradicate heresies [Graeci, Armeni, Syri, Jacobitae] and lead the crusaders to Jerusalem. In an afterword, apparently dictated by Bohemond, complaints are made about those who have taken the cross and have not fulfilled their vows and about the false promises of the Byzantine emperor Alexius.
Sept. 11. Antioch. Bohemond [of Taranto], Count Raymond [of St Gilles], Duke Godfrey [of Bouillon] of Lorraine, Count Robert of Normandy, Count Robert of Flanders and Count Eustace of Boulogne write to Pope Urban II. They inform him of their triumphs as Hierosolymitani Iesu Christi against the... more
sources: Hagenmeyer, Die Kreuzzugsbriefe, pp. 161-5, no. 16 (RRH no. 14)
RRR: Correspondence/envoy
16
year: 1099
initiator: Daibert, archbishop of Pisa
recipient: Pope Urban II
text: Sept. 1-30. Latakia. Daibert, archbishop of Pisa, and other bishops, together with Godfrey [of Bouillon], dux, gratia Dei ecclesiae S. Sepulcri nunc aduocatus, Count Raymond of St Gilles and all the army of God which is in the land of Israel, inform Pope Urban II of the success of the crusade.
Sept. 1-30. Latakia. Daibert, archbishop of Pisa, and other bishops, together with Godfrey [of Bouillon], dux, gratia Dei ecclesiae S. Sepulcri nunc aduocatus, Count Raymond of St Gilles and all the army of God which is in the land of Israel, inform Pope Urban II of the success of the crusade.
sources: Hagenmeyer, Die Kreuzzugsbriefe, pp. 167-74, no. 18 (RRH no. 29)