chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres

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The chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres are a key medieval Latin narrative that provides a detailed eyewitness account of the First Crusade and the early years of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical narrative
medieval Latin chronicle
primary source
alternateName Historia Ierosolimitana by Robert the Monk
surface form: Historia Hierosolymitana
associatedWith First Crusade
Kingdom of Jerusalem
surface form: Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
author Fulcher of Chartres
citationForm chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres self-linksurface differs
surface form: Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
compositionEndDate c. 1127
compositionStartDate c. 1100
coversEvent Battle of Dorylaeum
Council of Clermont
departure of the First Crusade
establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem
reign of Baldwin II of Jerusalem
Siege of Antioch
surface form: siege of Antioch

Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
surface form: siege of Jerusalem (1099)

Siege of Nicaea
surface form: siege of Nicaea
describesGroup Frankish crusaders
describesPerson Baldwin I of Jerusalem
Baldwin II of Jerusalem
Godfrey of Bouillon
Pope Urban II
fieldOfStudy crusade studies
medieval history
genre crusade chronicle
geographicFocus Jerusalem
Kingdom of Jerusalem
surface form: Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Levant region
surface form: Levant
historicalSignificance key narrative source for the First Crusade
major source for early Latin East history
language Latin
literaryStyle annalistic narrative
manuscriptTradition survives in multiple medieval manuscripts
narrativePerspective eyewitness account
originalTitle Gesta Francorum
surface form: Gesta Francorum Iherusalem peregrinantium
preservedIn European libraries and archives
religiousContext Latin Christianity
religiousTheme holy war ideology
pilgrimage to the Holy Land
setting Eastern Mediterranean
structure three books
timePeriodDescribed First Crusade
early years of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
usedBy modern historians of the Crusades
viewpoint pro-crusade

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First Crusade describedIn chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres
Gesta Francorum influenced chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres
this entity surface form: Historia Hierosolymitana by Fulcher of Chartres
chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres citationForm chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres
this entity surface form: Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana