* On the Temple Mount, outside the al-Aqsa mosque.
* An obvious exaggeration.
* Lambert had attended the Council of Clermont and had preserved a copy of the crusade decree: see above, p. 23.
* Arnulf of Chocques, 1 August 1099.
* Fulcher is once again an eyewitness of Baldwin of Edessa’s movements.
† Fulcher eggs the pudding of praise for Baldwin as a Christian warrior to conceal his absence from the capture of Antioch and Jerusalem.
* Probably in November 1099.
† The bishop from Apulia may have been from Ariano; with Baldwin may have been Benedict of Edessa.
‡ Sugar cane.
* 9 a.m., 25 December 1099.
† The dispute with Arnulf, already elected 1 August, is concealed.
‡ In Greek mythology, one of the three judges of the Underworld.
* Jerusalem.
† Old Testament enemies of the Israelites; Dagon was a Philistine god, the Amalekites a hostile tribe.
* Areuna the Jebusite; see 2 Samuel 24:16–24
‡ C. Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (Edinburgh, 1999), p. 71.
* Vizier of Egypt.
† The name given to the Palestinian coastal plain and maritime cities from Beirut to Ascalon.
‡ 12 August 1099.
* Head of the Jewish community in Egypt.
* i.e. in contrast with Muslims when they sacked cities.
* Deuteronomy 33:21.
* Deuteronomy 7:15.
* Hebrew member of the yeshiva or scholarly academy.
* The Prophet rebuking his successors, unworthy caliphs.
* Referring to the Norman conquest of Sicily after 1060 and the reinvigorated reconquista in Spain.