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Memoirs of the Crusades by Villehardouin and De Joinville
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General SummaryGEOFFROY de Villehardouin (about 1160–1213) was one of the organizers of the Fourth Crusade. He also took an active part in the capture of Constantinople and the founding of the short-lived Latin Empire. His Conquest of Constantinople possesses, accordingly, great historical value. It has also real literary merit, for Villehardouin wrote lucidly, methodically, and with a directness of style which doubtless expressed the author’s strong and vigorous personality. The work ranks among the most important productions of medieval French literature.
Chapter XXXVI
the Fourth Crusade and the Capture of
Constantinople1
181. First Preaching of the Crusade2
Be it known to you that eleven hundred and ninety-seven years after the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the time of Innocent III, pope of Rome, Philip II, king of France, and Richard I, king of England, there was in France a holy man named Fulk of Neuilly — which Neuilly is between Lagnisur-Marne and Paris — and he was a priest in that village. And Fulk began to speak of God throughout the Isle of France, and the other regions round about; and you must know that by him the Lord wrought many miracles.
Be it known to you, further, that the fame of this holy man so spread that it reached the pope, Innocent III; and the pope sent to France, and ordered the right worthy man to preach
the cross by his authority. And afterwards the pope sent a cardinal of his, Master Peter of Capua, who himself had taken the cross, to proclaim the indulgence of which I now tell you, viz., that all who should take the cross and serve in the host for one year would be delivered from all the sins they had committed and would be acknowledged in confession. And because this indulgence was so great, the hearts of men were much moved, and many took the cross for the greatness of the pardon.
1 , translated by Sir Flank Marzials. London, 1908. J. M. Dent and Sons.
2 Villehardouin, La conquête de Constantinople, ch. vi, secs. 1–2.
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Chicago: Sir Flank Marzials, trans., "First Preaching of the Crusade," Memoirs of the Crusades by Villehardouin and De Joinville in Readings in Early European History, ed. Webster, Hutton (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1926), 376. Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UYLQKIPY5VKB39A.
MLA: . "First Preaching of the Crusade." Memoirs of the Crusades by Villehardouin and De Joinville, translted by Sir Flank Marzials, in Readings in Early European History, edited by Webster, Hutton, Boston, Ginn and Company, 1926, page 376. Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UYLQKIPY5VKB39A.
Harvard: (trans.), 'First Preaching of the Crusade' in Memoirs of the Crusades by Villehardouin and De Joinville. cited in 1926, Readings in Early European History, ed. , Ginn and Company, Boston, pp.376. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UYLQKIPY5VKB39A.
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