. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Philip I. CHAPTER IX. FROM THE FIRST CRUSADE TO THE ACCESSION OFPHILIP AUGUSTUS. But when on high the sacred standard rose,Through all their veins a brisker current flows,New hopes, new strength, inspire the pious throng, Tis Heayens high will, they shout, and rush along. Miss PoRDEif. 1. We must now return to the history of FranceAD Although Urhan II. had excommunicated the king, hedid not hesitate to take refuge in France when exposedto danger by the quarrels between the emperor and the holysee. He called a
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Philip I. CHAPTER IX. FROM THE FIRST CRUSADE TO THE ACCESSION OFPHILIP AUGUSTUS. But when on high the sacred standard rose,Through all their veins a brisker current flows,New hopes, new strength, inspire the pious throng, Tis Heayens high will, they shout, and rush along. Miss PoRDEif. 1. We must now return to the history of FranceAD Although Urhan II. had excommunicated the king, hedid not hesitate to take refuge in France when exposedto danger by the quarrels between the emperor and the holysee. He called a council at Clermont, and in a long speechrecommended to the assemblys notice the state of Palestine,exhorting all to take up arms and rescue its sacred soil fromthe infidels. 2. The preaching of Peter the Hermit, an en-thusiastic monk of Picardy, who had lately returned from a 74 HISTORY OF THE FIRST CRUSADE. 75 pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and who gave a most pathetic de-scription of the calamities to which the pilgrims were exposed,had prepared their minds; no sooner then did they hear thepapal recommendation, than all with one acclaim shoutedJDeus id vulU u God wills it. 3. At the same council, Ur-ban once more excommunicated Philip, forbade princes togive investitures,* and ordered that bishops and priests shouldnot for the future do homage to their sovereigns. He nexttravelled from province to province, commanding the peopleeverywhere to join the crusades; deposing those bishopswho had in any way resisted his power, and lavishing privi-leges on the monks, who had been found by experience to bethe most strenuous supporters of the holy see. 4. The crusading frenzy which seized on France producedthe most dreadful calamities; a disorderly rabble, headed byPeter the Hermit, and a Norman gentleman called Walter thePennyless, first set out; their numbers exceeded 300,
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