The Deeds of God Through the FranksGuibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy
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The Deeds of God Through the Franks
Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy
Crusades -- First, 1096-1099
[182] Miraculous intervention at this point is reported also in the
*Gesta Francorum*, (Brehier 154), and in a letter published by
Hagenmayer (*Epistulae et Chartae* 167), but neither Raymond nor
Fulcher mention it.
[183] Malach.III.10
[184] August 1, 1098.
[185] IV Kings.v.12
[186] At this point manuscript I adds: Jerome says, in the fifth book
of his explication of Isaiah, that Antioch was the city of Reblata,
in which king Nabugodonosor tore out the eyes of king Sedechia, and
killed his sons.
[187] Latin for "red."
[188] Ma'arrat-an-Nu'man.
[189] Kafartab.
[190] Rafaniya.
[191] Abou Ali Ibn Ammar.
[192] Raymond, vicount of Torena.
[193] Job 2.4
[194] Latakia.
[195] Djebali
[196] Among the Romans, *iustitium* was a day on which no
business can be undertaken due to natural disaster
[197] Judges XVII.6.
[198] Manassas II of Chatillon died in 1106. Anselm's letters have
survived and appear in *Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi
belli sacri spectantes*, ed. Heinrich Hagenmeyer, Innsbruck, 1901,
pp. 144-146 and 156-160.
[199] October 31.
[200] Botron.
[201] Jubail.
[202] Nahir-Ibrahim.
[203] Saida.
[204] I Kings 17.9.
[205] Tyre.
[206] Ramla.
[207] I Kings I.
[208] Robert, a Norman cleric.
[209] Psalm 21.30.
[210] John IX.7.
[211] Guibert has elided the assertion in the *Gest Francorum*
that the Arabs had poisoned the wells, substituting instead these
remarks sympathetic to the class from which he sprung.
[212] Joshua VI.20.
[213] The author of the *Gesta Francorum* gives his name as
Gaston Bearn.
[214] Part of a dactylic hexameter couplet.
[215] Three elegiac lines.
[216] Two dactylic hexameters.
[217] Psalms 121.1.
[218] 48 iambic trimeters.
[219] Guibert multiplies the single *nuntius* of the *Gesta
Francorum* into *legati*.
[220] Sichem, then Flavia Neapolis, then Nabulus.
[221] Arnulf of Martirano.
[222] The *Gesta Francorum* reports the presence of the animals
without attributing them to any Arabian design.
[223] One dactylic hexameter.
[224] Two dactylic hexameters.
[225] Psalm 92.4.
[226] Three dactylic hexameters.
[227] Isaiah 43.5.
[228] Zech 12.2.
[229] Galatians 2.2.
[230] Zechariah 12.2.
[231] Zechariah 12.3.
[232] Zechariah 12.3.
[233] Luke 21.24.
[234] Ezekiel 29.18.
[235] Zechariah 12.4.
[236] Zechariah 12.4.
[237] Zechariah.12.5.
[238] Zechariah 12.6.
[239] Zechariah 12.6.
[240] Zechariah 12.7
[241] Zechariah 12.8.
[242] Zechariah 12.8.
[243] Zechariah 12.9.
[244] Psalm 2.8.
[245] Apoc 2.27; 19.15.
[246] Zecharia 12.10.
[247] 5.5.
[248] It is not clear what this province is. The RHC editor
tentatively suggests "Isauria."
[249] Judges VI, VII, VIII.
[250] Terence *Eunuch* 4.6.6.
[251] Hebrews 13 II.
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