Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Fig. 103—Godefroy de Bouillon, crowned with the Instruments of our Lords Passion.—From aWoodcut of the end of the Fifteenth Century, in the Burgundian Library, Brussels. victorious army, under the modest title of Baron of the Holy Sepulchre,founded the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem. Haifa century passed away, during which Christendom sent forth expedi-tion after expedition to defend the Holy Land and to consolidate its conquest;but with little success, for the Saracens never desisted from their attacks on 118 the Crusaders, and persistently disputed with them the possession of Palestine.Moreover, the ardour of the pilgrims gradually diminished, the zeal forthe Crusades commenced to slacken in Europe, and indifference and apathy
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Fig. 104.—Tomb of Godefroy de Bouillon, as it existed in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jeru-salem, with the inscription:— Hie jacet fhclitus Godfridus de Bulion, qui totam istam terramacquisivit cultui Christiano, cujus anima cum Christo requiescat. Amen. ( Here lies theillustrious Godefroy de Bouillon, who won all this Holy Land to the worship of Christ. Mayhis soul rest with Jesus.)—Monument of the early part of the Twelfth Century, now de-stroyed, from a Drawing taken on the spot in 1828, now in the possession of M. Ambr.Firmin-Didot. began to take its place. When the throne of Godefroy de Bouillon beganto totter upon its insecure foundations, the road to Jerusalem becamedeserted, and the civilised world, absorbed and distracted by the nearerand keener struggles continually waging between its popes and its sovereigns, THE CRUSADES. 119 soon preserved but a vague remembrance of the glorious enterprises of itsfathers. Suddenly, However, it was rumoured in the West that the

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