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A51463	The history of the crusade, or, The expeditions of the Christian princes for the conquest of the Holy Land written originally in French, by the fam'd Mounsieur Maimbourg ; Englished by John Nalson.; Histoire des Croisades. English	Maimbourg, Louis, 1610-1686.; Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1685 (1685)	Wing M290; ESTC R6888	646,366	432

their Empire and delivering them into the Hands of the Philistins Chaldeans and other Infidel People who were the Executioners of his Justice so did he punish the horrible Crimes of the Christians whom he had brought into Palestine by the victorious Arms of the first Crusades by depriving them of that Kingdom and abandoning them to be Slaves to those People whom their Ancestors had with so much Glory so often vanquished But farther to give some natural Reason for this Change the first Conquerors of Palestine were warlike and most valiant Men accustomed to Fatigues and such as frankly exposed themselves to all manner of Dangers and were never known to recoil let the number of their Enemies which they were to incounter be never so Prodigious they esteemed it a Happiness to dye Martyrs in combating gloriously for the Faith and for the Name of Jesus Christ And the Orientals against whom they fought were at that time little skilled in Wars cowardly undisciplin'd and half-armed People who were not able to abide above one Shock as having nothing to trust to but their Bows and Arrows which they shot at Rovers and commonly rather slying than fighting Whereas on the contrary the Christians having exchanged with the Infidels for all their Vices had also gotten their Cowardice their esseminate and idle way of Living loving Repose and Pleasure and hating the trouble of War and the Severity of that Discipline which is so necessary to a Soldier and which they wholly neglected The Turks and Sarasins on the other hand were become mighty Warlike under their victorious Sultans Sanguin Noradin Syracon and Saladin who having learnt at their Cost to arm themselves like the Europeans with good Curiasses and strong Lances had also taught them to follow their Colours year 1188 to fight hand to hand and had inspired them with Courage and Considence both by their Examples and the fortunate Success of their Arms. And in short The Conquerors of the Holy Land under the first Kings were under one sole Head who uniformly governed the whole Body of his Estate and Army which acted according to the Measures which he prescribed with a perfect Unity without Division without diversity of Interests Inclinations and Opinions as if the whole Army had been as one Man according to the Expression so frequent in the Scripture Whereas the Turks and Sarasins were then divided almost into as many particular Estates as there were Cities in Palestine and Syria and therefore could raise no great Armies but what must be commanded by many Chiefs who for the most part never accorded very well by reason of the diversity of their Opinions and Interests which made them almost continually be overthrown though they were incomparably the stronger in number of Soldiers than their Conquerors But upon the falling of the Realm the Christian Army was composed of the Troops of diverse Chiefs those of the King of Jerusalem the Prince of Antioch the Earl of Tripolis and the great Masters of the Temple and the Hospital who all of them had different Prospects and Designs which did not at all agree one with the other On the contrary all the Estates of the Infidels bordering upon the Christians Egypt Arabia Mesopotamia the Realms of Damascus and Cilicia were at that time united into one single Monarchy under the great Saladin and so their Army had but one Captain and Head who being most Wise and Valiant gave one Impression and a constant regular Movement to this great Body which did not act but according to his positive Orders And certainly it is most particularly this Unity which hath always made great Armies Victorious as may be seen in all Ages and Histories but was never more manifested than in this last Campaign which was so glorious and so advantageous to the King of France For on the one part the Emperour and the Spaniards and great part of the Princes of the Circles of the Empire and the Hollanders being leagued and confederated against him had raised very strong and numerous Armies to invade France both by Sea and Land On the other side that King alone without imploying any other Power but his own and giving out himself those Orders which were with Fidelity Executed always prevented them I do not say from entring but so much as approaching France Beat them thoroughly to the very Islands and in Person by main Force conquered one fair and large Province and his Army alone in Flanders under his auspicious Fortune commanded by the famous Prince of Conde having to oppose them three great Armies of the Emperour the King of Spain and the Hollanders joyned in one Body under three Chieftains yet cut in pieces their Rere took their Baggage ravished from them more than one hundred Colours and shamefully chased them from before Oudenard and pursued them beyond the Scheld And there it was that their Commanders having at last the Leisure to take Breath and to complain one to another were constrained to avow by their Flight which they disguised under the name of a Retreat that as there is but one Soul in one Body to give it Life Movement and the Power to perform those admirable Operations of a Man so there ought to be but one absolute Monarch in a Kingdom and one General in an Army to procure the Felicity of the People and to inable them to triumph gloriously over all the Enemies which go about to trouble their Repose or rob them of their Happiness But after these Reflections which I have made according to my little Art in Politicks which possibly will not appear altogether Useless or at least Indivertive it is time to return to my Subject and pursue this History of the Crusade THE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADE OR The Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land PART II. BOOK II. The CONTENTS of the Second Book The Death of Pope Urban III. upon the News of the Loss of Jerusalem The Decrees of Pope Gregory VIII and the Rules of the Cardinals to move God Almighty to Mercy and Compassion upon the Christians Gregory makes Peace between the Pisans and the Genoese Clement III. his Successor sends his Legats to the King of France and to the King of England The Conference at Gisors where the Archbishop of Tyre proposes the Crusade which is received by the two Kings The Ordinances which they made for the Regulation of it The War re-commences between the two Kings which hinders the Effect of the Crusade Richard Duke of Guinne joins with King Philip against his own Father The Death of Henry II. King of England His Elegy and Character The Legates propose the Crusade at the Diet at Mayence The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa there takes upon him the Cross as do many other Princes and Prelates of the Empire The Description of that Emperor His March to Thracia where he is necessitated to combat the Greeks The Character of the Greek Emperor Isaac Angelus The Reason why this

side in Regard it was impossible to transport so many Troops but at several times which would too much protract the Business and on the other that they could not believe that all the East was able to oppose such a flourishing Army as was then on Foot the Resolution was taken to sollow the same way which Godfrey of Bullen had done and to march by Land to Constantinople but withal to follow the Emperor at some distance that so they might with more Ease have the Convenience of Provisions for the two Armies Upon the third day by Express Order from the King the Debate was handled concerning the Person who was most proper to be intrusted by the Government of the Realm during the Kings Absence in so long and dangerous a Voyage And therein the Opinion which all men had of the extraordinary Abilities of Sugerius Abbot of St. Dennis year 1146 and which was so well known by his Management of the greatest Affairs of France in the time of Lewis the Gross was so general that without any Diversity of Opinions they unanimously sollicited the King already of himself inclined to it to conferr that Trust and Honor upon him This Great Man who without all doubt was one of the most able Ministers which ever served any of our Kings was about the Age of fifty five Years of a Shape and Stature something surpassing the middle of a Meagre Countenance and a Constitution Weak and Tender of a Birth no ways Eminent but a man of a mighty Soul and of a Mind raised as high as ever any man possessed a Spirit lively Subtile Penetrating and of a Prodigious Understanding which he had also Cultivated and polished with all manner of admirable Learning and which was accompanied with a most happy Memory and a most solid Judgment Upon the matter he was Politick Dextrous Insinuating Perswasive Civil Obliging Liberal and Courteous to all Persons but on the other Hand he was a most admirable Justiciary Magnanimous Fearless Firm and Inexorable and continually opposite to those who went about to shock the Royal Authority or to abuse their own by oppressing the Weak and Poor And that which Infinitely heightned the Lustre of all these Excellent Qualities was that after he had by the Advice of St. Bernard reformed both his Monastery and himself for during the Reign of Lewis the Gross who was none of the best bred men of the World he learnt so well to accommodate all the Imploys of his Ministry with those Duties which became him as a Religious and an Abbot that he lived at the Court as if he had been in his Monastery and when he lived in his Monastrey he forgot nothing which was owing to the Court or to the Publick The King therefore following the Counsel of the Estates of France declared him Regent of the Kingdom during his Absence giving him for an Assistant to command the Military Affairs Raoul Earl of Vermandois who though he was a Prince of the Blood being Cousin to Lewis the Gross yet submitted to the Authority of the Regent without the least Jealousie or murmuring so much was that of the King reverenced even in those times though the Royal Power was not then in any measure arrived to that high Elevation and Supreme Greatness to which for the Advantage and Glory of this August Monarchy we see it raised at this day And that which was yet more extraordinary in this Choice was that this Wise Minister whose foresight was more piercing and reached further than others did not only not advise the King to undertake this Voyage but from the Beginning did all that possibly he could to oppose that Resolution foreseeing without doubt the Pernicious Consequences which according to all Appearances in his Opinion it was like to have So that it was out of pure Respect and Necessity that he was at last obliged to cease opposing it knowing that he should gain nothing but to be blamed for endeavouring to no purpose to hinder the Execution of a Design which coming from the King his Master had been approved by the General Vote of four Assemblies of all the Great Men of the Realm Notwithstanding all this Lewis without taking it amiss that he was almost the only Person in his Kingdom that did not seem to approve of this Enterprise did not fail in this occasion to do him the greatest Honor that a King can possibly do to a Subject conferring upon him the Regency that is all the Royal Power and Authority during his Absence Which makes it evident to Kings and Princes that though their Sovereign Power dispenses with them from any Obligation always to follow those Counsels which according to the Rules of Prudence they require from their Subjects and which ought to be given them with all Faithful Sincerity yet it is great Wisdom in them to leave their Counsellors at intire Liberty to give their Advice lest otherwise they give it rather according to the Inclinations of their Prince than the Sentiments of their own Reason Judgment and Conscience which ought to be the Rules of all Faithful and Wise Councellors whereas the other though they may have been Grateful to their Masters and sometimes advantagious to their Private Interests yet have too frequently proved Fatal to those who have received and followed them As for the Abbot he having at last submitted out of Respect and Duty to the Pleasure of his Master in Reference to his Voyage to the Holy Land year 1147 he made a most obstinate Resistance to that of the Honor of so great a Charge nor would he ever have accepted it had not the King as it were to compel him in a manner wholly sweet and obliging had the Goodness to have Recourse to the good Offices and even the Commands of Pope Eugenius to prevail with him to accept it for it was in this Year some time after the Convention of the Estates at Estampes that the Pope came into France both to secure himself from the Persecution of the Revolted Arnaldists as also there to determine the Differences which were very hot concerning certain new and Dangerous Propositions which were maintained by Gibert de Porea Bishop of Poitiers Eugenius was most honourably received by the King and was by the Pope reciprocally received with the Pontifical Benediction in the Church of St. Dennis where the Marks of his Pilgrimage to the Holy Land were bestowed upon him Lewis there desired the Pope to do him the Honor during his Absence to take the Realm into his Protection and the Pope to answer that Mark of Piety and Affection towards the Holy See solemnly Excommunicated all those who during the Kings Voyage should attempt any thing against the Royal Authority After which when the King had made all his Preparations and had amassed great Sums of Mony for the Subsistence of his Army even to the coining of several Sacred Vessel belonging to diverse Churches and borrowing considerable Summs of many Monasteries with