ABSTRACT
On 22 July 1099 the leaders of the First Crusade elected Godfrey of Bouillon as ruler of Jerusalem and those other parts of Palestine which they had conquered from the Muslims. Hagenmeyer showed that of the senders Daimbert, Archbishop of Pisa, had just arrived in Syria; in Laodicea he met Raymond of Saint-Gilles and other princes, not named in the letter, who were on their way back to Europe from Jerusalem. The traditional explanation is that Godfrey in his piety refused to wear a crown in the city where Christ had worn a crown of thorns. The protection of the Eastern Church had been one of Pope Urban’s main themes at the Council of Clermont, included in every account of his speech.
