The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades . part of whatprecedes more prooerly applies. t By the French is always to be understood the people who dwelt north of theGaronne. 1131.] THE HOSPITALLERS. 239 possess is that to be found in the Assizes of Jerusalem, asthe work containing the constitution of the Kingdom isstyled. All possessors of lands or offices held mediately or im-mediately of the king, and were bound to the usual feudalobligations of attendance in war, etc., and the unitedforces of the Christian states were at this time an over-match for any
The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades . part of whatprecedes more prooerly applies. t By the French is always to be understood the people who dwelt north of theGaronne. 1131.] THE HOSPITALLERS. 239 possess is that to be found in the Assizes of Jerusalem, asthe work containing the constitution of the Kingdom isstyled. All possessors of lands or offices held mediately or im-mediately of the king, and were bound to the usual feudalobligations of attendance in war, etc., and the unitedforces of the Christian states were at this time an over-match for any single one of those of the Moslems. Butunfortunately, as we shall see, the rule of the successionof females was allowed to hold, and divisions, distractions,and feebleness were produced thereby. The chief strengthof the kingdom lay in the two military orders, which wewill now proceed to describe. The Hospitallers. OOME citizens of Amalfi, in Italy, who traded to the^ East, had, with the permission of the Egyptian khalee-feh, built a convent near the church of the Eesurrection,. Master of the Hospital. 210 FULK. [1131. which was dedicated to the Virgin, and named SantaMaria de Latina, whose abbot and monks were to receiveand entertain pilgrims from the West. A nunnery wasafterwards added, and as the confluence of pilgrims in-creased, a new hospitium was erected, dedicated to Eleemon (compassionate), a former patriarch of Alex-andria, or, as is asserted, with perhaps more probability,to St. John the Baptist. This hospital was supported bythe bounty of the abbot of Sta. Maria and the alms of thefaithful, and the sick and poor of the pilgrims here metwith attention and kindness. At the time of the taking of Jerusalem, Gerhard, a na-tive of Provence, presided over the hospital; and the caretaken by him and his brethren of the sick and woundedof the crusaders won them universal favour. Godfrey be-stowed on them his domain of Monboire, in Brabant; hisexample was followed by o
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