Chronicles of the Crusades

1848 · Book · Jean de Joinville, Geoffroi de Villehardouin, J. A. Giles

“IN the year of our Lord 1198, when Innocent was Pope in Rome, Philip was King of France and Richard King of England, there lived in France a man of saintly character called Foulques, who was in holy orders and priest of the parish of Neuilly, a small town lying between Paris and Lagny-sur-Marne.”

Chronicles of the crusades, being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf; and of the crusade of St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville. by Jean de Joinville, Geoffroi de Villehardouin