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Raymond d'Aguiliers
Raymond's work was first translated from Latin into French by scholar François Guizot at the beginning of the nineteenth century in his work, Memoires sur l'histoire de France (1824). The Latin text is available in Jacques Bongars' Gesta Dei per Francos, I, 139-183), and the Recueil des historiens occidentaux des croisades (1866), 235-309.
Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Raymond's work is his account of the crusaders capture of Jerusalem in 1099. Although Raymond wrote that the slaughter in Solomon's Temple was so intense that crusaders rode in blood up to their knees and bridal reins, his claim almost certainly reflects more Raymond’s familiarity with scripture than any reality during the siege of Jerusalem. The biblical verse found in Revelation 14:20 uses identical language and would have been known to Raymond who was a clergyman (he served as chaplain to Count Raymond IV of Toulouse).(1)
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(1) Ronald C. Finucane. Soldiers of the Faith: Crusaders and Moslims at War. (London: Dent, 1983), 100.
(c) Andrew Holt, December 2006- Permission is granted for electronic copying and distribution in print for educational and personal use. No permission is granted for commercial use.