* Peter the Hermit’s followers (alii, i.e. ‘others’, in the Latin text).
† Seljuk sultanate of Rum or, more generally, Asia Minor.
‡ 14 May 1097.
* Stephen, count of Blois and Chartres, husband of Adela, daughter of William the Conqueror, and so Duke Robert’s brother-in-law.
† Vassal of Count Roger of Sicily; died heroically at Antioch 4 June 1098; later a hero of vernacular chansons.
* Count Raymond arrived 16 May 1097.
* These crusaders had been destroyed September/October 1096.
* Scrofa (‘sow’) was a shed protecting sappers; petrariae and tormenta threw stones.
† The boats were launched on the night of 17–18 June 1097.
‡ It was in fact taken on 19 June 1097, not on the solstice (20 June).
* 16 May 1097.
* Siege engines.
* Literally ‘golden bull’, i.e. imperial proclamation.
* Rodomer the Bulgarian was a cousin of Anna; Monastras, half Greek, half Turk, was a widely experienced general.
† Gap in text.
* George Palaeologus, a Comnenan loyalist, friend of Alexius, was later one of Anna’s sources.
† Taticius had experience of leading western troops against the Pechenegs in the Balkans in the early 1090s.
* 1 July 1097.
† Notice the prominence given to the Greeks not mentioned in western sources; Taticius was in the vanguard with Bohemund on the march from Nicaea.
‡ Heraclea; some confusion by Anna here.
§ Perhaps Malik Ghazi Gumushtigin, the Danishmend leader.
* North-west of Iconium; unlikely.
* Battle of Dorylaeum, 1 July 1097; for site, probably thirty miles north of Dorylaeum (Eskisehir), see J. France, Victory in the East (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 170–81.
* A much-repeated passage indicating an army’s need for plunder to survive rather than deep-seated crusader mercenary motives.
* Possibly Albanians, but generally an exotic name used for effect, not analysis.
† Another exoticism; Paulicians followed the heresy of Paul of Samosata and denied the Orthodox divinity of Christ. The author is unlikely to have known this.
* 30 June 1097.
† Fulcher was with Bohemund, Robert of Normandy and the advance guard that was trapped by the Turks.
‡ 1 July 1097.
§ i.e. Kilij Arslan I, sultan of Rum.
* Garbled; possibly invented for generic exotic effect.
* In fact Adhemar took an active role in leading the decisive pincer movement on the Turks’ left flank.
† The main force of Godfrey, Raymond and Hugh.
‡ 6–7 a.m. to 11 a.m. to 12 noon; cf. the Gesta account above, pp. 126–9.
* At Lefke, 27 June 1097; the advance guard contained Bohemund, Robert of Normandy and Taticius’ Greeks; the rearguard was led by Count Raymond, Adhemar of Le Puy and Duke Godfrey of Lower Lorraine.
* Raymond of Aguilers was with the rearguard, unlike Fulcher or the author of the Gesta, who record events from the vanguard’s perspective.
† Raymond of Aguilers is notable for omitting a description of the privations experienced during the passage of central Anatolia.
* Kilij Arslan I, sultan of Rum, son of Kilij Arslan (d. 1086); the author is oddly well informed.
† Typical of the fantastical rhetoric the author ascribes to Muslim leaders.
* The desert of the central Anatolian plateau.
† Iconium, after Nicaea the capital of Rum.
‡ Leading south towards the coast of Cilicia; c.14 September 1097.
* Tarsus was taken c.21 September 1097.
* Probably Comana.
† Peter d’Aupis or Aliphas was a southern Italian Norman who entered Greek service after 1085. He founded a prominent twelfth-century Byzantine dynasty.
* Late July–August 1097.
† Significant admission of linguistic, national and regional diversity and potential divisiveness.
‡ Comet seen in Europe 30 September to 14 October when the crusaders were more probably at Caesarea; they were at Heraclea 10–14 September 1097.
* 13–16 October 1097; see map p. xliv.
† 17 October 1097; thereafter Fulcher was no longer an eyewitness of the events of the main crusade.
‡ The Cilician raid lasted from mid-September to mid-October 1097.
§ Tell Bashir; see map p. xliv.
¶ The governor of Edessa was the Armenian Thorus, claiming authority from Byzantium but effectively independent.
** Edessa was in fact forty-five miles east of the Euphrates and c.160 miles from Antioch; see map p. xliv.