Gesta Francorum

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Gesta Francorum is an anonymous 11th-century Latin chronicle that provides a firsthand account of the events and battles of the First Crusade.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf First Crusade narrative
Latin chronicle
anonymous work
medieval chronicle
associatedWith Bohemond I of Antioch
surface form: Bohemond of Taranto

Godfrey of Bouillon
Pope Urban II
Raymond IV of Toulouse
Tancred
author anonymous
authorOrigin Norman knight
authorParticipation participant in the First Crusade
bias pro-Norman
pro-crusader
chronicleCoverageEnd 1099
chronicleCoverageStart 1095
dateWritten c. 1100
late 11th century
describesEvent Battle of Dorylaeum
Council of Clermont
People's Crusade
Siege of Antioch
Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
Siege of Nicaea
genre crusade chronicle
military history
geographicFocus Asia Minor
Holy Land
Levant region
surface form: Levant
historicalValue primary source for the First Crusade
influenced Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana by Ralph of Caen
Historia Hierosolymitana by Baldric of Dol
chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres
surface form: Historia Hierosolymitana by Fulcher of Chartres

Historia Ierosolimitana by Robert the Monk
Historia Ierosolimitana by Robert the Monk
surface form: Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere by Guibert of Nogent
language Latin
literaryForm prose
mainSubject Crusades
First Crusade
manuscriptTradition multiple medieval manuscripts
modernEditions edited and translated in various modern languages
narrativePerspective eyewitness account
placeOfOrigin Kingdom of Sicily
surface form: Norman Italy

Southern Italy
scholarlyUse source for crusade historiography
style direct
simple
title Gesta Francorum self-linksurface differs
surface form: Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum

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First Crusade describedIn Gesta Francorum
Bohemond I of Antioch describedBySource Gesta Francorum
Gesta Francorum title Gesta Francorum self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum
chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres originalTitle Gesta Francorum
subject surface form: Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres
this entity surface form: Gesta Francorum Iherusalem peregrinantium
Battle of Dorylaeum (1097) primarySource Gesta Francorum