ABSTRACT
The army led in the First Crusade by Godfrey of Bouillon, duke of Lower Lotharingia, set off on its journey to the Holy Land about the middle of August 1096. Leaving aside the vexed question of numbers, the aim of this essay is to examine the composition of this army, in the first instance by identifying as many of its participants as possible, and discussing their relationship to Godfrey and to one another. The siege lasted from 29 June to 9 August 1095 and ended unsuccessfully, partly because Godfrey of Bouillon and other nobles in the besieging army refused to attack the castle owing to an unresolved dispute concerning the deposed abbot of Saint-Hubert. It is not surprising that the only named clerics known to have travelled in Godfrey's company were the aforementioned Louis of Toul and Adalbero of Luxembourg, archdeacon of Metz, who was a son of Conrad I of Luxembourg and a proximus of Henry IV.
