[572] Ibid.
[573] Manuel Comnenus had married Bertha, and Conrad, Gertrude, both daughters of Berenger the elder, Count of Sultzbach.
[574] Odon de Deuil.
[575] William of Tyre; Odon de Deuil.
[576] The Pope, in his exhortation to the second crusade, had not only regulated the general conduct of the crusaders, and formally absolved all those who should embrace the Cross, but he had given minute particulars for their dress and arms, expressly forbidding all that might encumber them in their journey, such as heavy baggage, and vain superfluities, and all that might lead them from the direct road, such as falcons and hunting-dogs. “Happy had it been for them,” says Odo of Deuil, “if, instead of a scrip, he had commanded the foot pilgrims to bear a cross bow, and instead of a staff, a sword.”
[577] Odo of Deuil; Will. Tyr.
[578] Will. Tyr; Odon de Deuil; Gest. Ludovic VII; Nicetas.
[579] Odon de Deuil.
[580] Will. Tyr.; Odon de Deuil.
[581] Odon de Deuil; Freysinghen; William of Tyre.