ABSTRACT
As well as official documents such as Quantum praedecessores, unofficial forms of recruitment also existed. This song was written in Old French and would have been sung in courts and public places as the crusade gathered support. It is important as a secular source (rare at this time), although in this instance, the composer seems to have heard Quantum praedecessores because there are some similarities of message. In other respects, however, this is plainly a secular document appealing to the interests and sensibilities of the knightly classes.
