[37] Ludovici regis ad abbatem Sugerium epist. 58.--_Duchesne hist. franc. scrip._ tom. iv. p. 512; see also epist. 59, ibid. [38] _Simeonis Dunelmensis hist._ ad ann. 1148, _apud_ X _script._ [39] _Dugdale Baronage_, tom. i. p. 122, _Dugd. Monast._ vol. 7, p. 838. [40] Ex regist. Hosp. S. Joh. Jerusalem in Angli in _Bib. Cotton._ fol. 289, a-b. _Dugd. Monast. Angl._ ed. 1830, vol. vii. p. 820. [41] Ex. cod. vet. M. S. penes Anton. Wood, Oxon, fol. 14 a. Ib. p. 843. [42] _Liber Johannis Stillingflete_, M. S. in officio armorum (L. 17) fol. 141 a, Harleian M. S. No. 4937. [43] _Geoffrey of Clairvaux_ observes, however, that the second crusade could hardly be called _unfortunate_, since, though it did not at all help the Holy Land, it served to _people heaven with martyrs_. [44] His head and right hand were cut off by Noureddin, and sent to the caliph at Bagdad.--_Abulfarag. Chron. Syr._ p. 336. [45] _Spicilegii Dacheriani_, tom. ii. p. 511; see also _Will. Tyr._ lib. xvii. cap. 9. [46] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xvii. cap. 21. _L'art de verifier les dates_, p. 340. _Nobiliaire de Franche-Compté_, par Dunod, p. 140. [47] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xvii. cap. 20, ad ann. 1152. [48] _S. Bernardi epistolæ_, 288, 289, 392, ed. Mabillon. [49] _Anselmi Gemblacensis Chron._ ad ann. 1153. _Will. Tyr._ lib. xvii. cap. 27. [50] Captus est inter cæteros ibi Bertrandus de Blanquefort, Magister Militiæ Templi, vir religiosus ac timens Deum. _Will. Tyr._ lib. xviii. cap. 14. _Registr. epist._ apud _Martene_ vet. script. tom. ii. col. 647. [51] Milites Templi circa triginta, ducentos Paganorum euntes ad nuphas verterent in fugam, et divino præsidio comitante, omnes partim ceperunt, partim gladio trucidarunt. _Registr. epist._ ut sup. col. 647. [52] _Will. Tyr._ lib. xix. cap. 8. [53] _Epist._ xvi. S. Remensi archiepiscopo et ejus suffraganeis pro ecclesia Jerosolymitana et militibus Templi, apud _Martene vet. script._ tom. ii. col. 647. [54] _Islam_, the name of the Mahometan religion. The word signifies literally, delivering oneself up to God. [55] Keightley's Crusaders. [56] The virtues of Noureddin are celebrated by the Arabic Historian _Ben-Schunah_, in his _Raoudhat Almenadhir_, by _Azzeddin Ebn-al-ather_, by _Khondemir_, and in the work entitled, "The flowers of the two gardens," by _Omaddeddin Kateb_. See also _Will. Tyr._ lib. xx. cap. 33. [57] _Regula_, cap. xlviii. [58] Vexillum bipartitum ex Albo et Nigro quod nominant _Beau-seant_ id est Gallicâ linguâ _Bien-seant_; eo quod Christi amicis candidi sunt et benigni, inimicis vero terribiles atque nigri, _Jac. de Vitr. Hist. Hierosol. apud Gesta Dei_, cap. lxv. The idea is quite an oriental one, black and white being always used among the Arabs metaphorically, in the sense above described. Their customary salutation is, May your day be _white_, i. e. may you be happy.