ABSTRACT
Towards the end of the twelfth century Geoffrey of Vigeois, following on from the earlier work of Adhemar of Chabannes, wrote a chronicle about events in the Limousin. He gives an account of the First Crusade and refers to the work of Baudry of Bourgueil, one of its chroniclers. There are various references to what seems to be an Occitan epic tradition about the First Crusade. Where a work is named it is called the Canso d'Antioca. A cycle of poems on the First Crusade also existed in Old French, the Old French Crusading cycle, and it is possible that this is sometimes what is being referred to. In 1954 Rita Lejeune examined the Roland allusion in the Madrid fragment, and discussed the text in the context of Occitan crusading spirit. In 1976-78 Suzanne Duparc-Quioc explored its relationship with the Old French Crusade Cycle at some length in her edition of the Old French Chanson d'Antioche.
