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HISTORY or THE CRrSADES.
and lords who bad taken tlie cross, Heracle, coimt de I'olignac,
Pons de Balazan, Guillaunie de Sabran, Eleazar de
Castrie, Eleazar de Montredon, Pierre Bernard de Montaonac,
PaATnond de Lille. Pierre Ea^nnond de Hautpool,
Gouffier de Lastours, Guillaume V., lord of Montpellier,
Eoo-er, count de Foix, Eaymond Pelet, Seigneur d'Alais,
Isard, count de Die, Eaimbaud, count d' Orange, Guillaume,
count de Perez, Guillaume, coimt de Clermont, Gerard, son of
Guillabert, count de Eoussillon, Gaston, A^scount de Beam,
Guillaume Amanjeu d'Albret, Ea^^nond, \'iscount de Turenne,
Ea^^nond. ^-iscount de Castillon, Guillaume d'Urgal,
and tbe count de Fortcalquier. After the example ofAdbemar,
tbe bishops of Apt, Lodeve, and Orange, and the archbishop
of Toledo, had taken up the cross, and led a part of their
vassals to the holy war.
Eavmond, count of Thoulouse, followed bv his wife Eh-ira
and his sons, placed himself at the head of a himdred thousand
Crusaders, advanced to Lyous, where he crossed the
Ehone, traversed the Alps, Lombardy, and Frioul, and
directed his march towards the territory of the Greek empire,
over the savage mountains and tlirough the equally savage
nations of Dalmatia.*
Alexis, who had implored the assistance of the Latins,
was terrified when he learnt the numbers of his Hberators.
The leaders of the crusade were only princes of the second
order, but thev drew with them all the forces of the "W^est.
Ajana Comnena compares the multitude of the Crusaders to
the sands of the sea or the stars of the heavens, and their
innumerable bands to torrents which unite to form a great
river.f Alexis had learnt to dread Bohemorwi on the plains
of Durazzo and Larissa. Although he was less acquainted
with the courage and ability of the other Latin princes, he
repented of ha^Hng imparted to them the secret of his "sreakness
by asking their aid. His alarms, which were increased
* Consult tbe history of Raymond d'Agiles, chaplain of the count de
Thoulouse, for the description of this march of the Qrusaders of the
south across a country till that time unknown.
t An Armenian historian says of the preparations for this crusade,
" The gates of the Latins were opened, and the inhabitants of the West
saw issuing from their countries armies and soldiers numerous as locusts
or the sands of the sea."