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A51463	The history of the crusade, or, The expeditions of the Christian princes for the conquest of the Holy Land written originally in French, by the fam'd Mounsieur Maimbourg ; Englished by John Nalson.; Histoire des Croisades. English	Maimbourg, Louis, 1610-1686.; Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1685 (1685)	Wing M290; ESTC R6888	646,366	432

of Almada Sintria Palmela and a great many other Places After which it being now too late to pursue their Voyage into Palestine the greatest part of these generous Crusades highly Satisfied with the punctual Fidelity of the King who offered them one half of Lisbon nobly refused it and contenting themselves with the rich Presents which the King was pleased to make them Returned loaden with those and Glory into their respective Countries some of the most remarkable of the Captains being willing to remain in the Service of a King so Valiant and Liberal setled in Portugal and there Founded those illustrious Houses which to this very time hold the first rank of Nobility in that Kingdom See now what happy Success befel the smallest of the three Armies of this second Crusade whilest the other two incomparably the greater in Number but incomparably the less Successful disposed themselves to put in Execution their Enterprise by Land For in the same time that the Naval Army made Sail upon the Ocean the young King Lewis began to March with his by Land The Earl of Morienne and the Marquis de Monferat his two Uncles by the Mother joyned him at Mets with many brave Italian Troops he received also a Reinforcement of Troops which were raised in Lorrain by the Bishops of Metz and Toul by Renand Earl of Monson Brother to the Bishop of Metz and by Hugh Earl of Vaudemont So that this Army Royal was as strong in Cavalry and much better Mounted and Armed and not much inferior in Infantry to the Imperial Army which taking the same Way it Marched to joyn in Thracia But it was Difficult for one single Province to contain such a prodigious Multitude of Valiant Soldiers which might easily have Triumphed over the whole East if they had been sufficiently Precautioned as they ought against the most dangerous Enemy which they had to Encounter which was the Greek Emperor whom they took to be their Friend This Emperor was Manuel the Son of Calo Johannes and Grandchild of Alexis Comnenius who hath rendred his Name so Infamously Odious by his Persidiousness towards the Princes of the first Crusade and who notwithstanding never Arrived near the height of that horrible Baseness and Wickedness of this his Grandson of whom I speak He was a Prince in whom both his Good and his Evil Qualities were so Interwoven that in the beginning of his Reign made it doubtful whether he did not deserve the Empire of which his Father had Disinherited his Elder Brother to bestow it upon him For besides that the Lustre of some Virtues which he had seemed very well to Conceal his Vices He was in Person very well made tall but stooping a little his Face was very Pleasing his Colour Lively his Eyes Sweet and Winning accompanied with a certain Smile very natural to him and Charming to those who had the Honor to Approach him he had Spirit a natural Eloquence and a great deal of Knowledge he was besides Politick and Prudent above his Age year 1147 which was yet but in the Flower of his Youth and nevertheless Brave Fearless Hardy Daring and ready in the Execution of what he undertook never considering when he saw an Enemy whether he should give Battle or not and one who not only Loved War but supported the greatest Toils and Hardships of it with as much Pleasure as the meanest Soldier of Fortune But all these good Qualities were corrupted by his Wickedness which far surpassed them For in the time of Peace never was there any Prince more Dissolute than he in all manner of Debauches without taking the least Care in the World to preserve his Reputation by concealing his Vices for he Lived in most scandalous Incest with the Princess Theodora his Niece with as little Precaution as if she had been his Wife Besides he was cruelly Covetous rapaciously taking what he pleased and fottishly Prodigal lavishing all even the Mony with which he was to pay his Soldiers and maintain his Navies giving away his Treasures without Discretion and without Measure to his Niece to the Eunuchs and to Strangers who flattered him in his Brutal Passions He was after all this infinitely Jealous and outrageously Cruel where he suspected Superstitious even to Folly especially in Judicial Astrology believing in every thing the false Oracles of his Figure-Flingers who Abused him to his very Death promising him a little before it fourteen Years of a most delicious and pleasant Life but that which is infinitely more Dangerous he was Rash and Presumptuous in the matter of Religion insomuch that he commanded by an Edict that a place of Scripture should be Explained in his Sense which clearly gave it for the Heresy of Arius at another time he put out a Decree which openly favoured the false Law of the Impostor Mahomet But in short that of his devilish Qualities which was most eminent in him was his Persidiousness which made him commit the blackest and most horrid Crimes upon the Occasion of this second Crusade which have rendred his Memory eternally Execrable to the whole Earth He received at the first the Ambassadors of Conrade indifferently well they coming from his Brother-in-Law for these two Emperors had married two Sisters the Daughters of old Berengarius Earl of Luxemburgh and Sultzbach He also sent some Troops to meet the Emperor not so much out of Respect or Honor but to observe his Motion during the remainder of his March to Constantinople where at his Arrival he was but very coldly Received either because Manuel could not without some Displeasure see a Prince who took upon him that Quality which the Greeks pretend appertained only to their Emperor or that he feared that the Germans who had had great Differences upon the March with the Greeks should indeavour to Revenge themselves or rather that he was resolved to Execute what he had plotted against them as soon as he could possibly In short he did so violently press their Departure that without giving them the Liberty almost of taking Breath the Army was constrained to pass the Strait upon the Vessels which he had ready to waft them over into Asia where this perfidious Emperor had long before disposed all things for the ruine of this Army For so soon as he understood that great Preparations were making in the West for this second Crusade he secretly gave Advise to Mamut the Nephew of Soliman the Sultan of Iconium who Reigned in Lycaonia Cappadocia and Galatia and pressed him vigorously to take up Arms against this Army of the Crusades which he was like to have upon his Hands Whereupon the Sultan immediately sent to all the Princes of his Nation to come for their common Interest with all the Forces they could raise to Succour him against the Christians which they did before one could well think it possible sending him a most formidable Army composed of an infinite number of Turks of the two Armenia's Cappadocia Isauria Cilicia Persia and Media

no way Martial together with mighty Boyishness had more of the Air of a young Girl than of a Man And besides the Marquis had a secret Understanding with the Queen Mother Mary the Niece of the Emperor Manuel and the Princess Isabella her Daughter who had no Hatred for his Person Now as they had all taken their Measures the Queen Mary and the Princess caused Humphrey to be Cited before the Bishop of Accon the Patriarch Heraclius being then sick to Death and upon the Testimony of Balian Lord of Ybelin who had espoused the Queen Mary the Widow of King Amauri of Payen Lord of Caïphas and of Renaud de Sidon whom the Marquis had gained the Marriage was declared Null upon the Pretence that the Princess had never given her Consent but that being extreme young she had been compelled to marry Humphrey and that she had always disclaimed it and protested against it as an Act of Force and Violence After which the Marquis publickly Married Isabella by the Ministery of the Bishop of Beavais and carried himself as King to the great Scandal of all good People who plainly saw and detested this shameful Collusion and the horrible Injustice which was done to Humphrey It is said also that Baldwin the Archbishop of Canterbury was so sensibly touched with the Displeasure which he took at this abominable Action and the Apprehension which he had of the horrible Disorders which were like to insue thereupon in the Army that he fell sick with the Vexation and in five days died as Holily as he had lived Religiously But the greatest part adhered to the Marquis and in regard the publick Fortune seemed to depend upon him principally for the Provisions which were to come from Tyre even those who were not at all satisfied yet were obliged to dissemble their Displeasure so that a patched Accommodation was made by which the one and the other were to remain in the State wherein they were year 1190 in expectation of the coming up of the Emperor and the two Kings to whom the Judgment of this Affair was to be committed In this Condition it was that the Affairs of this famous Siege stood when News was brought of the Death of the Emperor and the Arrival of the Duke of Suabia at Tyre to whom the Marquis immediately repaired and conducted him on Board his Fleet to the Camp where he was received with all imaginable Honour He took his Post among the Germans and the Danes in the Quarter which the Lantgrave had before possessed upon the Hill of the Mosquee extending to the Bridge of the River Belus So soon as this considerable Re-inforcement was come it was resolved according to the proposition which was made by Duke Frederick to make a general Assault Which was accordingly done both by Sea and Land with all the Courage imaginable and the Souldiers in despight of the brave Resistance of the Besieged did in more than one place plant the Standards of the Cross upon the Walls It was on this Occasion that it is reported that Leopold Duke of Austria made his heroick Courage most Conspicuous by an Action whose glorious Marks which at this day blazon the Armes of a House which is since become so August under the Name of the House of Austria do eternally publish the Memory Fame and Glory of it He fought from the Height of a wooden Castle which was raised at the Entry of the Gate against the Flye Tower and which was built upon the Deck of a great Ship For being mounted over the Walls followed by a few of his Men he was so hardly pressed by the numerous Infidels that all his Followers being slain and being now Single he was constrained to throw himself into the Sea half drowned already in his own and the Blood of his Enemies for he had nothing but Red about him except the white Scarf which he wore whereupon Frederick to eternize the Memory of such a noble Action gave him for his Armes with the great Applause of the whole Army in a Shield Gules a Fez Argent which the Princes of Austria have ever since that time born The Combat was not much more Advantageous by Land in regard that Saladin having at the same time attacked the Lines which he forced in many places they were obliged to quit the Assault to repulse the Enemies who were at last constrained to retire Saladin in this Rencounter lost the greatest part of his best Men and did not without great Difficulty disingage himself being something too far advanced from those who on every side surrounded him and who pursued him a great way beyond the Lines This was the last military Action of Duke Frederick who this being the second Autumn of the Siege was by the Distemper which raged in the Camp in a few days taken off to the incredible Regret of the whole Army who even adored this brave Prince whose rare Virtue which shined at his Death had rendred him more Illustrious than he had been all the time of his Life although a thousand Actions had made it most Glorious For the Eastern Physicians assuring him that his Distemper might easily be cured by the use of Females he without a moments Hesitation answered that he had much rather lose his Life than preserve it by such a Remedy as must sully both his Soul and Body at the same time that he had obliged himself by the Vow of his Pilgrimage to do what was pleasing to Jesus Christ who is the King the Crown and Husband of chast and pure Souls being all Purity and Chastity himself and thereupon surrendered his victorious Spirit into the Hands of God having overcome the two most formidable Enemies of Mankind the Pleasures of Life and the Pains as well as Fears of Death of which in the middle of a flourishing and verdant Youth he chose to receive the cold Imbraces rather than those of Life which he could not save but by the loss of his Chastity and Purity A rare Example which having been followed some three hundred Years after and in a like Age by Prince Casimir Son of Casimir King of Poland and Elizabeth Daughter of the Emperor Albertus Archduke of Austria advanced him to that degree of Sanctity as to deserve those supreme Honours which the Church solemnly renders to those whom she believes to be in the glorious State of the most Happy after Death But this Death which was so advantageous to Frederick was most sad and pernicious to the Army for the Germans now become desperate by having lost both their Emperor and their Prince would no longer acknowledge any Captain but quitted that Enterprise year 1190 which in Conclusion had been so Unfortunate to them and returned as well as they could into their own Country a few only excepted who resolved to Accomplish their Vow under Leopold Duke of Austria Add to this Accident the Sickness which daily continued in the Camp and the Famine which at some times they suffered and