[128] Guibert of Nogent, lib. ii.; Albert of Aix, lib. i.; Orderic Vital, lib. ix. Mills says it was the French and Normans who thus advanced into the country, but the great majority of writers is against him. [129] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. [130] Robert the Monk; William of Tyre; Guibert of Nogent; Albert of Aix. [131] Robert the Monk; Guibert of Nogent. [132] William of Tyre; Albert of Aix. [133] Robert the Monk; Guibert of Nogent. [134] Ibid. [135] William of Tyre; Albert of Aix. [136] Albert. Aquensis; William of Tyre. [137] Albert of Aix. [138] Robertus Monachus, lib. i. [139] Guibert of Nogent. [140] Guibert of Nogent. [141] See note VIII. [142] Will. Malmsbury. [143] Will. of Tyre; Albert of Aix. [144] Albert of Aix. [145] Guibert of Nogent. [146] Guibert; Will. Tyr. [147] Albert of Aix. [148] William of Tyre. [149] Albert of Aix. [150] Albert. Aquensis. [151] Will Tyr.; Albert. Aquens. [152] Guibert. [153] Fulcher; Guibert; Will. Tyr.; Albert. [154] I have taken perhaps more pains than was necessary to investigate this part of the crusaders' proceedings, which I found nearly as much confused in the writings of Mills as in those of the contemporary authors. Some assert that the whole mass of the western crusaders proceeded in one body through Italy; but finding that Fulcher, who accompanied Robert of Normandy and Stephen of Blois, never mentions Hugh of Vermandois; that Guibert speaks of that prince's departure first; that the Archbishop of Tyre marks the divisions distinctly, and that he certainly embarked at a different port in Italy from the rest, I have been led to conclude, that though probably looking up to Hugh as the brother of their sovereign, the three great leaders proceeded separately on their march. Robertus Monachus is evidently mistaken altogether, as he joins the Count of Toulouse with the army of Hugh, when we know from Raimond d'Agiles that that nobleman conducted his troops through Sclavonia. [155] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. [156] Guibert. [157] Ibid. lib. ii. [158] Will. Tyr. lib. ii. [159] Albert of Aix; William of Tyre. [160] Albert of Aix. [161] Guibert. [162] Albert of Aix; Robertus Monachus; Will. Tyr. [163] Will. Tyr.; Rob. Mon.; Guibert; Albert. Aquens. [164] Albert of Aix.