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who could boast of a single drop of Normanblood, were Normans. The Counts of Flanders,Hainaut, and Bouillon, are styled Normans, andwere bound by a direct treaty to keep William theNorman on the English throne. Hainaut, turnedby the Germans into Egenau, and by the Latinsand Italians into Anonia, or Eno, makes thesovereigns of Anonia be Anauci, and by corrup-tion Amauci; and the same person is indiscrimi-nately named Count of Anonia, or Hainaut, orAvesne, or Amauci, or Dell Monte . 1 So Gerard’sproposal was like a circular (with Godfrey’s con-sent as his near relative and sovereign), not onlyto all the Normans, but to all Europe; and indeed,more, all Christians, for that they should all benefitby what he had projected. All crusaders andpilgrims, each according to his station, and earthlycircumstances; a king or emperor, like a king oremperor; a knight, a nobleman, like such; aninferior, like an inferior, each as he had been accus-tomed to, or a little better, all fed and lodged inthe houses and halls of the order, and when sick,in its infirmaries; all protected and escorted bothin coming and going. To treat all alike, would beto maltreat all.