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188 THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [book i.

Taranto, the same. 1 In 1111, there are severaldonations by Antioch proprietors, during theguardianship of Tancred, and also under BohemondII., just out of minority. 2

In 1107, Villedieu, in Normandy, one of thegreatest establishments in the order, by Henry I.,King of England; for Duchesne, Martinez, and theencyclopaedias are certainly wrong by eighty years.Villedieu signifies Teopoli, which was the originalname given it at Antioch. 3 But Villedieu was nota single manor, but a whole magnificent tract ofcountry, with several parishes and a large popu-lation. 4 The pilgrims had built a fortress on a hillnear Tripoli, in 1103, for Raymond of St. Gilles, orCount of Toulouse, who was soon to become Lordof Tripoli; and to commemorate its being built bythem all, he gave it the name of Pilgrim Mount, andin 1105 left it to the Hospitallers, and in 1106 hehad the fall which killed him. 5 He fell from theroof down into a fire that we, the besiegers, hadlit, say the Mahometans;and after languishingfor ten days died, and the corpse of that aged count(whom God curse) was carried to Jerusalem to be

1 P. A. Paolio: 394. 2 Id. 386.

3 Id. 387.Bernardus Thesauxarius Chron., 188.

4 Id. 387.Hist. Norman, 308, Dono, &c.

5 Cod. Dipl. Geros., vol. i., Num. xi.