volume one

HISTOHY OF THE ClirSADES. 79
in tte " Jerusalem Delivered ;" the two brothers Henri and
Godfrey de Haehe, G-erard de Cherisi, Einaldo and Peter de
Toul, Hugh de St. Paul, and his son Engelran. These
chiefs brought with them a, crowd of other knights, less
known, but not less formidable by their valour.
The army commanded by the duke of Lorraine, composed
of soldiers formed by discipline and tiied in battle, offered to
the Germans a very different spectacle from the troop of
Peter the Hermit, and re-established the honour of the
Crusaders in all the countries they passed through. They
met with assistance and allies where the first champions of
the cross had found nothing but obstacles and enemies.
Godfrey deplored the fate of those who had preceded him,
without seeking to avenge their cause. The Hungarians
and the Bulgarians, on their part, forgot the violences committed
by the soldiers of Peter, Gotschalk, and Emicio ;
they admired the moderation of Godfrey, and offered up
vows for the success of his arms.
Whilst the duke de Lorraine was advancing towards Constantinople,
Prance was raising other armies for the holy
war. A few months after the council of Clermont, the nobles
of the kingdom assembled to deUberate upon the affairs of
the crusade. In this assembly, held in the presence of
Philip I., who had just been excommimicated, no one was
opposed to the war preached under the auspices of the Holy
See ; no one even thought of invoking policy either to moderate
or direct the passions which agitated Europe. The
cabinets of princes were as much infatuated as the multitude,
and it may be said that the fortune of Prance took
charge alone of these great events, w*hich, though unfortunate
at first, afterwards concurred to raise the monarchy
which had fallen into ruins under the feeble successors of
Charlemagne.
Towards the middle of the tenth century, the chief of the
third dpiasty had consecrated the usurpation of the nobles,
and to obtain the title of king, had almost abandoned the
little that remained of the rights of the crown. Philip L,
grandson of Hugh Capet, found that his dominions extended
but little beyond Paris and Orleans ; the rest of Prance was
governed by the great vassals, of whom several siu-passed
the monarch in power. Eoyalty, the only hope of the