The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3)

by J. Fr. Michaud

[157] Albert de Stadt.

[158] Anonymous Chronicle of Strasburg.

[159] This account is furnished by Alberic, and is confirmed by Thomas of Champré and Roger Bacon.

[160] Chron. Augus.; Chron. Argent.

[161] Godfrey the Monk.

[162] Opus Majus, p. 254, ed. in fol.

[163] See Marin, Storia Civile e Politica del Commercia de’ Veneziani, vol. i. p. 206; Do Guignes, Mémoires sur le Commerce des Francs dans le Levant, &c.; vol. xxxvii. of Les Mémoires de l’Acad. des Inscr.

[164] Videmus anno incarn. Di. 1213, infinitam puerorum multitudinem spiritu deceptionis arreptos, cum signaculo crucis iter Hierosolymitanum agressos fuisse, periisseque diversis in locis; et maximam ex eis multitudinem per malefices quosdam Sarracenis in mari venditos extitisse.—Lib. de Apibus.

[165] Forsan vidistis aut audivistis pro certo quod pueri de regno Franciæ semel occurrebant in infinitâ multitudine post quemdem malignum hominem, ita quod nec à patribus, nec à matribus, nec ab amicis poterant detineri, et positi sunt in navibus et Sarracenis venditi, et non sunt adhuc 64 annis.—Opus Majus, p. 254.

[166] We promised to give in the Appendix some letters and the Bull of this pope relative to the crusade of 1197; but as the contents of these pieces are all alike, with the exception of some trifling expressions, we shall confine ourselves to this one.