volume one

476 HISTOKY OF THE CKUSADES.
It was on tliis island, in the bosom of victory, and in the
\dcinity of the ancient Amathus, that Eichard celebrated
his marriage ^Yith Berengaria of Navarre. He then set out
for Palestine, dragging after him Isaac, loaded with chains,
and the daughter of that unfortunate prince, in whom, it is
said, the new queen found a dangerous rival.
The Franks celebrated the arrival of Eichard with feux
dejoie, lighted up throughout the camp. When the English
had united their forces with those of the Christian army,
Ptolemais saw beneath its walls all that Europe could boast
of as illustrious captains and valiant warriors. The tents of
the Eranks covered a vast plain, and their army presented
a most majestic and terrible aspect. A spectator, on beholding
on the coast of the sea the towers of Ptolemais,
and the camp of the Christians, in which they had built
houses and traced streets, traversed unceasingly by an immense
crowd, might have supposed he saw two rival cities
which were at war with each other. Each nation had its
leader and its separate quarter, and so many languages were
fc^poken by the Crusaders, that the Mussulmans could not
find interpreters enough to enable them to understand all
the prisoners. In this confused multitude, each people had
a different character, different manners, and different arms
but, at the signal for battle, all were animated by the same
the presence of the two monarchs
zeal and the same ardour ;
had re-established discipline, and Ptolemais could not have
prolonged its resistance, if discord, that eternal enemy of
the Christians, had not entered their camp with Eichard.
The debates relative to the succession to the throne (^i
Jerusalem were renewed on the arrival of the English.
Philip declared for Conrad, which was quite enough to determine
Eichard to give his voice for Gruy de Lusignan.
The Christian army was filled with troubles, and again
dirided into two factions : on one side were the Erench, the
Grermans, the Templars, and the Genoese ; on the other, the
English, the Pisans, and the knights of the Hospital. The
two parties, ready to break into open war, no longer united
their efforts or their arms against the Saracens ; whenever
the king of Erance, at the head of his warriors, proceeded
to the assault, the king of England remained in his tent in
;