[25] William, duke of Normandy ’917), Richard I. ’943), and Richard II. sent considerable sums into Syria.—See Glaber, lib. i. cap. 4; Duchene, vol. iv.
[26] Non quærunt mala, sed legem eorum adimplere cupiunt.—Guillebard. The account of the pilgrimage of St. Guillebard ’Villibaldus), drawn up by a nun of Heindenheim, at his relation, is to be found in the “Acta Sanctorum Ord. Sanct. Ben.” sæculi 3, part. 2.
[27] The account of the pilgrimage of Frotmonde, drawn up by an anonymous monk of Redon, is inserted in the “Acta Sanctorum Ordin. Sanct. Ben.” sæculi 4, part. 2.
[28] The aggregated history of the annals and chronicles of Anjou, which describes the pilgrimages of Foulque, relates an incident which appears to deserve to be known, for the full relation of which we refer to the Appendix.
A Latin chronicle, entitled “Gesta. Consulum Andegav. Spicilegium,” tom. x. p. 465, relates the same fact, with more brevity and some circumstantial differences:—
Dixerunt, nullo modo ad sepulcrum optatum pervenire posset nisi super illud et crucem Dominicam mingeret; quod vir prudens licet invitus annuit. Quæsitâ igitur arietis vesicâ, purgatâ atque mundatâ, et optimo vino repletâ, quæ etiam aptè inter ejus femora posita est, et comes discalciatus ad sepulcrum Domini accessit, vinumque super sepulcrum fudit, et sic ad libitum cum sociis omnibus intravit, et fusis multis lacrymis peroravit.
[29] The pilgrimage of Frederick is related by Dom Calmet, vol. i. p. 1072, of the “Civil History of Lorraine.” It is to be found also in the “History of the Bishops of Lorraine,” vol. i. pp. 203—205.
[30] See the Life of St. Helena, in the seventh volume of the month of July, pp. 332, 333, of the Bollandists.
[31] Raoul Glaber bestows great praise on this pilgrim, named Lethal, “who,” says he, “was not one of these who go to Jerusalem to court admiration,—ut solummodo mirabiles habeantur.”
[32] This pilgrimage of Litbert, or Liébert, is described in his life, written by Raoul ’Radulfus), his contemporary. See vol. iv. month of June, pp. 595—605, of the Bollandists.