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Link to this website's section providing an Introduction to the Crusades
Dr. Paul Crawford The First Crusade ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Alexius I Comnenus [Full Text]- Letter of Alexius to Count Robert of Flanders Crusades-Encyclopedia
Link to this website's section on Background to the Crusades
Dr. John France Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, and the First Crusade Reading Medieval Studies
Fulcher of Chartres [Full Text] Histoire Des Croisades Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Link to this website's section on the Jews and the Crusades
Dr. E.L. Skip Knox The First Crusade ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Link to this website's section on the Second Crusade
Letters of the Crusaders Written from the Holy Land Sam Houston State University
Link to this web site's section on Primary Sources of the First Crusade
Solomon bar Samson The Crusaders in Mainz Internet History Sourcebooks
H.E.J. Cowdrey Pope Urban II's Preaching of the First Crusade [PDF] In The Crusades-The Essential Readings Ed. Thomas Madden
Secondary Sources
Collected Accounts Peter the Hermit and the People's Crusade Internet History Sourcebooks
Paul Magadalino- The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade DeReMilitari.Org
Dr. Christopher J. Marshall The Crusading Motivation of the Italian City Republics In the Latin East c. 1096-1104 DeReMilitari.Org
Jean Richard- The Beginning of the Crusades Chapter In The Crusades,1071-1291 [PDF] Cambridge University Press
Ali Ibn Tahir al Sulami Extracts of Kitab Al Jihad Cornell University trans. Niall Christie
Rod Thompson William of Malmesbury Historian of Crusade DeReMilitari.Org
Fulcher of Chartres The Capture of Jerusalem, 1099 Internet History Sourcebooks
Key Participants of the First Crusade
Andrew Curry-The First Holy War U.S. News and World Report
Anna Comnena [Full Text]- The Alexiad In Parentheses [PDF]
Pope Urban II
Robert the Monk  Urban II: Speech at Clermont Internet History Sourcebooks Alexius I Comnenus
Source Authors of the First Crusade
Anna Comnena
Fulcher of Chartres Ali Ibn Tahir al Sulami
Pope Urban II Five Versions of the Speech at Clermont Internet History Sourcebooks
Balderic of Dol
Bohemond I of Antioch
Anna Comnena
Peter the Hermit
The Battle for Antioch (1097-1098) According to Peter Tudebode DeReMilitari.Org
Imad Al Din
Adhemar of Le Puy
Matthew of Edessa
Raymond IV of Toulouse
Albert of Aachen [Aix]
Guibert of Nogent The Deeds of God Through the Franks Project Gutenburg
Ekkehard of Aurach
Tancred
Guibert of Nogent
Godfrey of Bouillon
Collected Accounts The Siege and Capture of Antioch Internet History Sourcebooks
Ibn Tahir Al Sulami
Robert II of Flanders
William of Malmesbury
Baldwin of Boulogne
Ibn Al Qalanisi
Ibn Al Athir The Franks Seize Antioch The University of Michigan
Robert of Normandy
Robert the Monk
Stephen of Blois
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The First Crusade: Short Narrative From Contemporary Sources DeReMilitari.Org
Hugh of Vermandois
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