ABSTRACT
The road from Jerusalem to Jericho and the sites associated with Christ's Temptation in the Wilderness and Baptism in the River Jordan was being frequented by Christian pilgrims from early in the fourth century. 1 Soon after the fall of Jerusalem to the army of the First Crusade in 1099, Count Raymond of St Gilles, fulfilling the instructions given him by Peter Bartholomew in Antioch, led his men to bathe in the waters of the Jordan near Jericho; 2 and the following Epiphany, his example was followed by other crusading leaders, including Bohemond of Antioch, Baldwin of Edessa (the future Baldwin I), Godfrey of Bouillon and the patriarch, Daimbert of Pisa. 3
