Origin and Numbers of the First Crufade. Charafters of the Latin Princes. Their March to Conftantinople.-Policy of the Greek Emperor Alexius.Conquest of Nice, Antioch, and Jerufalem, by the Franks.—Deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre.-Godfrey of Bouillon, First King of Jerufalem.Inftitutions of the French or Latin
BOUT twenty years after the conqueft of c HAP. Jerufalem by the Turks, the holy fepul- LVIII. chre was vifited by an hermit of the name of Peter, a native of Amiens, in the province of Picardy in France. His refentment and fympathy 1095
* Whimsical enough is the origin of the name of Picards, and from thence of Picardie, which does not date earlier than A. D. VOL. XI. B