* He did, but only in 1101 to meet his death.
† Lord of Alais in the Limousin.
‡ Ma’arrat al-Numan on the road from Hamah to Aleppo; Raymond Pilet’s raid took place July–August 1098.
* 1 August 1098.
* Peter of Narbonne, c.25 September 1098; the first Latin bishop appointed by the crusaders over a predominantly Greek Orthodox Christian community.
* 1 November 1098.
† 1 August 1098.
‡ Bohemund went to Cilicia to secure for himself the conquests of Baldwin and Tancred the previous autumn.
* i.e. Raymond of Toulouse.
* Peter Bartholomew died 20 April 1099 at the siege of Arqah after the ordeal by fire of 8 April; Montjoie refers to the hill on the Jaffa–Jerusalem road which afforded travellers their first view of the Holy City. This anecdote breathes hindsight.
† North-east of Antioch, c.14–17 September 1098.
* The bishop of Apt and the otherwise unknown Simon were in the Provençal force; Chastel Rouge was a fort in the Ruj valley.
* 1 November 1098.
* Lord of Lastours; he was later said to have brought a pet lion home with him as a souvenir.
* William; after Adhemar of Le Puy’s death he tried to fill his spiritual role.
† Conference held c.4 January at Ruj.
‡ In fact Raymond’s followers had demolished the walls (c.5 January) to force him to lead them south.
* c.25 September 1098.
† This may be wishful thinking on the author’s part.
‡ 1 November 1098.
§ Baldwin of Boulogne’s Edessa detour, October 1097–February/March 1098.
* Raymond of Aguilers here refuses to shy away from the fierce divisions and rivalries within the leadership.
† Ma’arrat al-Numan was besieged from 27 November to 11–12 December 1098.
* i.e. the towers Raymond held and garrisoned.
* The Ruj meeting was held c.4 January 1099 and provides a good example of how leaders expected to raise troops, i.e. by payment; the sums involved may indicate the relative size of each contingent as well as Count Raymond’s disposable wealth.
* This effectively forced Count Raymond to move on.
† A measured judgement; for cannibalism, L. A. M. Sumberg, ‘The “Tafurs” and the First Crusade’, Medieval Studies, xxi (1959), pp. 224–46.
* Actually 28 June 1098.