Normandy, and the
Provincials to Raymond of Tholouse, the glory of refusing the crown; but
the honest voice of tradition has preserved the memory of the ambition
and revenge (Villehardouin, No. 136) of the count of St. Giles. He died
at the siege of Tripoli, which was possessed by his descendants.]

[Footnote 115: See the election, the battle of Ascalon, &c., in William
of Tyre l. ix. c. 1-12, and in the conclusion of the Latin historians
of the first crusade.]

[Footnote 1151: 20,000 Franks, 300,000 Mussulmen, according to Wilken,
(vol. ii. p. 9)--M.]

[Footnote 116: Renaudot, Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 479.]

[Footnote 1161: Arnulf was first chosen, but illegitimately, and
degraded. He was ever after the secret enemy of Daimbert or Dagobert.
Wilken, vol. i. p. 306, vol. ii. p. 52.--M]

[Footnote 117: See the claims of the patriarch Daimbert, in William of
Tyre (l. ix. c. 15-18, x. 4, 7, 9,) who asserts with marvellous candor
the independence of the conquerors and kings of Jerusalem.]

Without this indulgence, the conqueror would have almost been stripped
of his infant kingdom, which consisted only of Jerusalem and Jaffa, with
about twenty villages and towns of the adjacent country. [118] Within
this narrow verge, the Mahometans were still lodged in some impregnable
castles: and the husbandman, the trader, and the pilgrim, were exposed
to daily and domestic hostility. By the arms of Godfrey himself, and of
the two Baldwins, his brother and cousin, who succeeded to the throne,
the Latins breathed with more ease and safety; and at length they
equalled, in the extent of their dominions, though not in the millions
of their subjects, the ancient princes of Judah and Israel. [119] After
the reduction of the maritime cities of Laodicea, Tripoli, Tyre, and
Ascalon, [120] which were powerfully assisted by the fleets of Venice,
Genoa, and Pisa, and even of Flanders and Norway, [121] the range of
sea-coast from Scanderoon to the borders of Egypt was possessed by the
Christian pilgrims. If the prince of Antioch disclaimed his supremacy,
the counts of Edessa and Tripoli owned themselves the vassals of the
king of Jerusalem: the Latins reigned beyond the Euphrates; and the four
cities of Hems, Hamah, Damascus, and Aleppo, were the only relics of the
Mahometan conquests in Syria. [122] The laws and language, the manners
and titles, of the French nation and Latin church, were introduced into
these transmarine colonies. According