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See also:GODFREY OF See also:BOUILLON (c. ro6o-11oo)
, a See also:leader in the First Crusade, was the second son of Eustace II., See also:count of See also:Boulogne, by his See also:marriage with See also:Ida, daughter of See also:Duke See also:Godfrey II. of See also:Lower See also:Lorraine
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He was designated by Duke Godfrey as his successor; but the See also:emperor See also:
Along with his See also:brothers Eustace and See also:Baldwin (the future Baldwin I. of Jerusalem) he led a See also:German contingent, some 40,000 strong, along`"See also:Charlemagne's road," through See also:Hungary to See also:Constantinople, starting in See also:August Io96, and arriving at Constantinople, after some difficulties in Hungary, in See also:November
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He was the first of the crusading princes to arrive, and on him See also:fell the See also:duty of deciding what the relations of the princes to the eastern emperor Alexius were to be
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Eventually, after several disputes and some fighting, he did See also:homage to Alexius in See also:January 1097; and his example was followed by the other princes
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From this See also:time until the beginning of 1099 Godfrey appears as one of the See also:minor princes, plodding onwards, and steadily fighting, while men like See also:Bohemund and See also:Raymund, Baldwin and See also:Tancred were determining the course of events
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In Io99 he came once more to the front
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The See also:mass of the crusaders became weary of the See also:political factions which divided some of their leaders; and Godfrey, who was more of a See also:pilgrim than a politician, becomes the natural representative of this feeling
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He was thus able to force the reluctant Raymund to See also: But already, at the end of 1099 Dagobert, See also:archbishop of See also:Pisa, had been substituted as patriarch for See also:Arnulf (who had been acting as See also:vicar) by the See also:influence of Bohemund; and Dagobert, whose See also:vassal Godfrey had at once piously acknowledged himself, seems to have forced him to an agreement in See also:April I roo, by which he promised Jerusalem and Jaffa to the patriarch, in See also:case he should acquire in their See also:place See also:Cairo or some other town, or should See also:die without issue . Thus were the See also:foundations of a See also:theocracy laid in Jerusalem; and when Godfrey died (July 'too) he left the question to be decided, whether a theocracy or a See also:monarchy should be the See also:government of the Holy See also:Land . Because he had been the first ruler in Jerusalem Godfrey was idolized in later See also:saga . He was depicted as the leader of the See also:crusades, the king of Jerusalem, the legislator who laid down the assizes of Jerusalem . He was none of these things . Bohemund was the leader of the crusades; Baldwin was first king; the assizes were the result of a See also:gradual development . In still other ways was the figure of Godfrey idealized by the grateful tradition of later days; but in reality he would seem to have been a quiet, pious, hard-fighting See also:knight, who was chosen to See also:rule in Jerusalem because he had no dangerous qualities, and no obvious defects . material, were subsequently added . In addition the parentage and See also:early exploits of Godfrey were made the subject of See also:legend . His grandfather was said to be Helias, knight of the See also:Swan, one of the brothers whose adventures are well known, though with some variation, in the See also:familiar See also:fairy See also:tale of "The Seven Swans." Helias, See also:drawn by the swan, one See also:day disembarked at See also:Nijmwegen, and reconquered her territory for the duchess of Bouillon . Marrying her daughter he exacted a promise that his wife should not inquire into his origin . The tale, which is almost identical with the See also:Lohengrin legend, belongs to the class of the See also:Cupid and See also:Psyche narratives . See LOHENGRIN . See also C . Hippeau, Le See also:Chevalier au cygne (Paris, 2 vols., 1874–1877); H . Pigeonneau, Le See also:Cycle de la croisade et de la famille de Bouillon (1877) ; W . Golther, " Lohengrin," in See also:Roman . Forsch . (vol. v., 1889); Hist. lift. de la See also:France, vol. xxii. pp . 350-402; the See also:English See also:romance of Helyas, Knyghte of the Swanne.was printed by W . See also:Copland about 1550 . |
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