the valor of the French princes who in
this action bade a long farewell to the holy wars.

Some glory might be derived from the prodigious inequality of numbers,
though I shall not count the myriads of horse and foot [1151] on the
side of the Fatimites; but, except three thousand Ethiopians or Blacks,
who were armed with flails or scourges of iron, the Barbarians of
the South fled on the first onset, and afforded a pleasing comparison
between the active valor of the Turks and the sloth and effeminacy of
the natives of Egypt. After suspending before the holy sepulchre the
sword and standard of the sultan, the new king (he deserves the title)
embraced his departing companions, and could retain only with the
gallant Tancred three hundred knights, and two thousand foot-soldiers
for the defence of Palestine. His sovereignty was soon attacked by a new
enemy, the only one against whom Godfrey was a coward. Adhemar, bishop
of Puy, who excelled both in council and action, had been swept away in
the last plague at Antioch: the remaining ecclesiastics preserved only
the pride and avarice of their character; and their seditious clamors
had required that the choice of a bishop should precede that of a king.
The revenue and jurisdiction of the lawful patriarch were usurped by the
Latin clergy: the exclusion of the Greeks and Syrians was justified
by the reproach of heresy or schism; [116] and, under the iron yoke
of their deliverers, the Oriental Christians regretted the tolerating
government of the Arabian caliphs. Daimbert, archbishop of Pisa, had
long been trained in the secret policy of Rome: he brought a fleet
at his countrymen to the succor of the Holy Land, and was installed,
without a competitor, the spiritual and temporal head of the church.
[1161] The new patriarch [117] immediately grasped the sceptre which had
been acquired by the toil and blood of the victorious pilgrims; and both
Godfrey and Bohemond submitted to receive at his hands the investiture
of their feudal possessions. Nor was this sufficient; Daimbert claimed
the immediate property of Jerusalem and Jaffa; instead of a firm and
generous refusal, the hero negotiated with the priest; a quarter of
either city was ceded to the church; and the modest bishop was satisfied
with an eventual reversion of the rest, on the death of Godfrey without
children, or on the future acquisition of a new seat at Cairo or
Damascus.

[Footnote 114: The English ascribe to Robert of