In his presence the selfish quarrel of the two kings was shamed into silence. The king of France took the cross at once, and the king of England followed his example, this time without waiting for his people’s consent; the archbishops of Reims and Rouen, the counts of Flanders, Burgundy, Blois and Champagne, and a crowd of French and Norman barons did the like.[1192] The two kings set up a wooden cross, afterwards replaced by a church, to mark the spot, which they called the “Holy Field”;[1193] then they separated to make their preparations. Henry at once sent to request a safe-conduct for himself and his troops through the dominions of the king of Hungary and those of the Western and Eastern Emperors.[1194] Before the end of the month he issued from Le Mans an ordinance known as that of the “Saladin tithe,” requiring every man in his dominions to give towards the expenses of the crusade a tithe of all his personal property, excepting only the necessary outfit of a knight or a priest.[1195] This was accompanied by eight other ordinances also relating to the crusade,[1196] and was imitated two months later in France by Philip Augustus.[1197] On January 30 Henry returned to England;[1198] on February 11 he met the bishops and barons in council at Geddington near Northampton, to obtain their assent to the Saladin tithe and make arrangements for its collection.[1199] It was chiefly to superintend this that the king remained in England, while the archbishop of Canterbury went to preach the crusade in Wales.[1200] [1192] R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 51. _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 30. Will. Newb., l. iii. c. 23 (Howlett, vol. i. p. 272). Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 406. Rigord (Duchesne, _Hist. Franc. Scriptt._, vol. v.), p. 25. [1193] Rigord, as above. [1194] R. Diceto as above, pp. 51–54. [1195] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 31. Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. pp. 335, 336. Stubbs, _Select Charters_, p. 160. [1196] _Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 31, 32. Rog. Howden as above, pp. 336, 337. These latter ordinances were issued in all Christian realms by the Pope’s desire; see Will. Newb. as above (pp. 273, 274). [1197] Rigord (as above), pp. 25, 26. [1198] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 33. Gerv. Cant. as above. [1199] Gerv. Cant. as above, pp. 409, 410 (we are indebted to him for place and date). _Gesta Hen._ as above. [1200] Henry seems to have intended going to Wales himself, but to have given it up and sent the archbishop instead--an exchange which Baldwin gladly accepted, as he was at feud with his chapter, and greatly relieved to get away from it. Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 419–421.