volume one

250 HISTORY Of tilt: CPlVSADES.
Savoy, who set out for the Holv Land with Hugh the Great,
made a donation to the monks of the Bourget, in order to
obtain by theii- prayers, a fortimate establishment {consulat)
in his foreisTi Tovacre.* Mauv lords andkniirhts made similar
donations, whilst others founded monasteries and churches,
setting out with the hope that God would bless their
arras, and enable them to acquire rich principalities in the
East.
The Crusaders assembled in several troops, and crossing
the territories of the Hungarians and Budorarians, united
under the walls of Constantinople to the amount of two
hundred thousand. These new pilgrims repeated the scenes
of 'violence which had so seriously alarmed Alexius in the
first expedition. The Greek emperor, faithful to his poKcy,
opposed force by cimning ; he flattered the vanity or the
avarice of men he coidd not subdue, and paid veiy dearly
for the insincere homage of the leaders of the crusade. He
called Eaymond to liis assistance, who was then in his
government of Laodicea. The presence and the persuasive
discoiu*se3 of the count of Thoulouse calmed the perturbed
spirits of the Crusaders for a few days ; and when they set
* Guichenon, in his History of the House of Savoy, expresses himself
thus " : William Paradin relates that this prince (Humbert, second count
of Savoy) went to the Holv Land in the crusade which was determined on
at the council of Clermont, under Godfrey of Bouillon," which the greater
part of the historians have confirmed after him (such as Pingon, Vanderb.
Dogliani, Chieja, Balderan, Buttel, and Henning). Papyrus Ma* son has
rejected this, because neither the manuscript chronicle, nor the authors
of the crusades, who name many lords of less consequence, have mentioned
him. Botero has said nothing of him. " Nevertheless we cannot
for about that time this prince save the monks of the
doubt this voyage ;
Bourget in Suvoy a property called Gutin. for the health of his soul, of
that of count Ame. his father, and of his ancestors. This donation, dated
at d'Yenne in Savoy (and not Jena in Thuringia, as is said in the Art of
Verifying Dates), imports that the count bestowed this liberality to
obtain from
beyond sea.
God a fortunate
Now this word
establishment (consulat)
consulat then signified
in his voyage
a principality,
government, or sovereignty. Oderic Vital gives to Roger, count of
Sicily, the title of consul of Sicily." Guichenon adds here many other
exam])!es of the same kind. That which created doubts of the voyage of
Humbert is the silence of the historians of the first crusade, as we.l as all
the acts of this prince that have been preserved, and which prove that he
was in Europe in the year 1100 ; but all these doubts vanish, when we
know that he went in the second expedition.