[153] Fulcher; Guibert; Will. Tyr.; Albert.
[154] I have taken perhaps more pains than was necessary to investigate this part of the crusaders’ proceedings, which I found nearly as much confused in the writings of Mills as in those of the contemporary authors. Some assert that the whole mass of the western crusaders proceeded in one body through Italy; but finding that Fulcher, who accompanied Robert of Normandy and Stephen of Blois, never mentions Hugh of Vermandois; that Guibert speaks of that prince’s departure first; that the Archbishop of Tyre marks the divisions distinctly, and that he certainly embarked at a different port in Italy from the rest, I have been led to conclude, that though probably looking up to Hugh as the brother of their sovereign, the three great leaders proceeded separately on their march. Robertus Monachus is evidently mistaken altogether, as he joins the Count of Toulouse with the army of Hugh, when we know from Raimond d’Agiles that that nobleman conducted his troops through Sclavonia.
[155] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre.
[156] Guibert.
[157] Ibid. lib. ii.
[158] Will. Tyr. lib. ii.
[159] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre.
[160] Albert of Aix.
[161] Guibert.
[162] Albert of Aix; Robertus Monachus; Will. Tyr.