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him.” And in fact (adds the chronicler) Rogerespoused her; and they led a life of cloudlessfelicity. 1

It is nearly certain that Tancred must have hadsome of Gerard’s recent knights, and part, at leastof his eighty Norman horse, both in his Galileanexpedition, and that battle near Aleppo.; buthow many of them were slain there, no recordremains to tell. Nor if any of them were com-panions of Godfrey’s last feats southward, inwhich he caught a fever from bad air, or, as theMoslems affirm, 2 in consequence of a woundreceived near Acre u the light of the world ’’ fellsick, was lifted from his horse at Joppa, and thencewas carried in a litter to Jerusalem; where helingered in dreadful pain for five weeks, and ex-pired on the 17th of July, a.d., 1100. 3 ^Wh ether he ever swayed the sceptre, isdoubtful, nor is it any matter; he had the prero-gative, and deserved it. Baldwin had gone hometo his own dominions of Edessa (now Orfa); buton hearing of his brother’s death, and his ownelection, ceded Edessa to his cousin Baldwin de

1 Alberieus Yitalis, Angl.—Bibl. Crois., i. 315.

2 Arab. Chron., 17.

3 Michaud: Hist., ii. 11.—Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 345.—Bosio,par. 1, lib. i., anno 1100.

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