ABSTRACT
The Sanudo or Sanuto was a patrician family that had risen to prominence in Venice in the twelfth century, when they were regarded as one of the noblest families in Venice. The Holy Land of Promise is in Syria, which covers the whole land from the Tigris down to Egypt; having on the east the Tigris; on the south the Arabian Gulf; on the west the Mediterranean Sea; on the north Armenia and Cappadocia. This chapter tells how the Promised Land has been ruled by various peoples. It contains the beginnings of the Eastern Church. Heraclius Augustus hearing of the pillage of the Holy City of Jerusalem and of the Promised Land and touched inwardly with grief of the heart, since he could not use his power against this most powerful of kings. The chapter contains the wondrous movement of the Western peoples to free the Holy Land at the time of Peter the Hermit.
