ABSTRACT
Walter seems to have made a conscious attempt to write a historical record of events in northern Syria which would be of use to future generations. The assumption that Walter was a cleric is borne out by a study of his citations and allusions. Most of his references are to the Bible, and most of these are from the Psalms and the Epistles, the books of the Old and New Testaments which play a prominent part in the liturgy of the Church. Hagenmeyer suggested that Walter drew on another Latin history, that written by Fulcher of Chartres, for the events of 1119. While it is possible that Walter did take a limited amount of information from Fulcher regarding events in the kingdom of Jerusalem, it seems unlikely that he would have needed to do so for the principality of Antioch.
