The History of the Crusades (vol. 1 of 3)Michaud, J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.)
History
The History of the Crusades (vol. 1 of 3)
Michaud, J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.)
Crusades
Godfrey went out to meet the pilgrims as far as Bethlehem, with his
knights and the clergy. “After they were come into the holy city,”
says an old chronicle, “the king received them and feasted them
magnificently; and detained them in Judea during the winter, being
much gratified with the presence of his brother Baldwin.” Daimbert,
archbishop of Pisa, had come into Palestine as legate from the Holy
See. By means of presents and promises he got himself to be named
patriarch of Jerusalem, in the place of Arnoul de Rohes. This prelate,
brought up in the school of Gregory VII., maintained with warmth the
pretensions of the Holy See, and it was not long before his ambition
introduced trouble among the Christians. In the places even where
Christ had said that his kingdom was not of this world, he who called
himself his vicar desired to reign with Godfrey, and demanded the
sovereignty of a part of Jaffa, and of a quarter of Jerusalem in which
the church of the Resurrection was built. After some debates, the pious
Godfrey yielded to the imperious demands of Daimbert; and such was then
the ascendancy of the Church and the clergy, that the new king was
obliged to consent to a treaty by which the kingdom should belong to
the patriarch, if Godfrey should die without children. Godfrey thus
acknowledged himself the vassal of the sovereign pontiff, and received
from the pope and his legate permission to reign over a country
conquered by his arms. Bohemond and Baldwin consented at the same time
to receive from the pope the investiture of their principalities.
The prince of Antioch had refused to render homage to the king of
Jerusalem, but he did not hesitate to acknowledge himself the vassal of
a power which bestowed empires, and was able to send fresh armies into
the East.
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