| Author |
Work |
Date and provenance |
Description |
Editions and translations |
| Various correspondences between 1088 and 1100 |
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1088–1100 |
Letters by e.g. Stephen II, Count of Blois, Anselm of Ribemont, Patriarch of Jerusalem |
ed. H. Hagenmeyer, Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri spectantes: Die Kreuzzugsbriefe aus den Jahren 1088–1100. Innsbruck, 1902; tr. The First Crusade. The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants, ed. A. C. Krey. Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1958. |
| anonymous author associated with Bohemond |
Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum |
c. 1100x1106 |
Latin chronicle of the First Crusade (1095-1099), a source used by many medieval historians, including Guibert of Nogent, Fulcher of Chartres, and Baldric of Bourgueil. Likely based on a lost text or texts, also used by Tudebode. |
ed. and tr. Rosalind Hill, Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum. Oxford, 1967. |
| Peter Tudebode, priest from Poitou |
Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere |
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History of the First Crusade, including an eye-witness account of the Siege of Antioch |
tr. John H. Hill and Laurita L. Hill, Petrus Tudebodus, Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 101. Philadelphia, 1974. |
| Ralph of Caen |
Gesta Tancredi |
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ed. Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach, The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade. Ashgate Publishing, 2005. |
| Raymond of Aguilers |
Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem |
1099 x1100 |
The history is in part an eyewitness account, as Raymond, chaplain of Raymond IV of Toulouse, followed the Provençal army of crusaders to Jerusalem; yet it was based to some extent on the Gesta Francorum |
tr. John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1968. |
| Guibert of Nogent |
Dei gesta per Francos |
1107 x 1108 |
Narrative of the First Crusade, based in part the Gesta Francorum |
tr. Robert Levine, The Deeds of God through the Franks: A Translation of Guibert de Nogent's 'Gesta Dei per Francos'. 1997. |
| Robert the Monk |
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c. 1116 |
A history of the First Crusade, which purports to be a stylistically superior version of the Gesta Francorum. It includes an account of the Council of Clermont |
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| Albert of Aix |
Historia Ierosolimitana |
1125 x 1150, Rhineland |
Latin work in 12 books on the First Crusade, from the Council of Clermont, and later events up to 1121. |
ed. and tr. Susan B. Edgington, Albert of Aachen: Historia Ierosolimitana, History of the Journey to Jerusalem. Oxford: Oxford Medieval Texts, 2007. |
| Fulcher of Chartres |
a chronicle/history |
1127 or later |
A history of the First Crusade and the events following (1095-1127), which is somewhat partisan to Godfrey of Bouillon and the house of Boulogne. Sources include the Gesta Francorum. |
ed. Harold S. Fink and tr. Francis Rita Ryan, Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessy Press, 1969. |
| Baldric of Dol |
Historiae Hierosolymitanae |
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| Ekkehard of Aura (d. 1126) |
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Ekkehard was an eyewitness of the Crusade of 1101. |
tr. W. Pflüger, Die Chronik des Ekkehard von Aura. Leipzig, 1893. |
| William of Tyre (d. 1186) |
Historia |
1170 x 1184 |
History in 23 books, covering a period from the 7th century to early 1184, but above all a history of the Crusades. For events prior to 1127, sources include Fulcher of Chartres, Albert of Aix, Raymond of Aguilers, Baldric of Dol and the Gesta Francorum. |
ed. R.B.C. Huygens, Willemi Tyrensis Archiepiscopi Chronicon. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis 38. Turnholt: Brepols, 1986; tr. E.A. Babcock and A.C. Krey, William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. Columbia University Press, 1943. |
| Ernoul, squire of Balian of Ibelin |
Chronicle |
late 12th century |
chronicle dealing with the fall of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem |
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Zimmern Chronicle |
16th-century |
chronicle which includes some legendary material. |
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