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tains of Samaria came to visit Grodfrey. They were struck
with the greatest surprise when they tbund the king of the
Christians without a guard, Avithout splendour, sleeping on
a straw pallet like the meanest of his soldiers. They were
not less astonished when, at their request, he exhibited
before them his extraordinary strength by cutting off the
head of a camel at a single blow with his sword. The emirs,
after having offered presents to Godfrey, returned to their
own country, and related the wonders they had seen. Their
recitals, which history has not disdained, contributed greatly
to increase the fame of the king of Jerusalem.
When Godfrey reached his capital, he learnt the approach
of a great number of pilgrims, the greater part of whom
were Pisans and Genoese, led by the bishop of Ariana, and
Daimbert, archbishop of Pisa. To the Christians arrived
from the AV^est were added Bohemond, prince of Antioch,
Baldwin, count of Edessa, and liaymond, count of Thoulouse.
These latter had come to visit the holy places, and to
celebrate the epoch of the birth of Christ at Jerusalem.
Godfrey went out to meet the pilgrims as far as Bethlehem,
with his knights and the clergy. " After they were
come into the holy city," says an old chronicle, "the king
received them and feasted them magnificently ; and detained
them in Judea during the winter, being much gratified with
the presence of his brother Baldwin." Daimbert, archbishop
of Pisa, had come into Palestine as legate from the Holy See.
By means of presents and promises he got himself to be
named patriarch of Jerusalem, in the place of Arnoul de
Kohes. This prelate, brought up in the school of Gregory
VII., maintained with warmth the pretensions of the
Holy See, and it was not long before his ambition introduced
trouble among the Christians. In the places even where
Christ had said that his kingdom was not of this world, he
who called himself his vicar desired to reign with Godfrey,
an d demanded the sovereignty of a part of Jaffa, and of a
quarter of Jerusalem in which the church of the E,esiu'rection
was built. After some debates, the pious Godfrey
yielded to the imperious demands of Daimbert ; and such
was then the ascendancy of the Church and the clergy, that
the new king was obliged to consent to a treaty by which
the kingdom shoidd belong to the patriarch, if Godfrey
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