ABSTRACT
Fulcher of Chartres was the first Latin chronicler of the Crusades to record transportation of horses by sea. He mentioned that in 1097, during the passage of the forces of Stephen of Blois and Robert of Normandy from Brindisi to Durazzo, one of their ships carrying horses and mules broke up soon after leaving port. Describing the remnants of the Crusade of 1101 who managed to battle their way through Asia Minor to Tarsus, William of Tyre said that those who still had horses proceeded on to Jerusalem by land while those who by then were on foot took ship. In 1146 the consuls of Genoa sent a fleet which carried 100 knights and their horses against the Muslims of Minorca and Almeria and then again in 1164 a fleet of seven galleys and three round ships transporting horses against Sardinia.
