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[57] That is, Helena.
[58] Psalm 63.7
[59] Genesis III.17,18.
[60] Died c. 336 A.D..
[61] Died c. 274 A.D.
[62] Ephesians 5.27.
[63] A.D. 249-251.
[64] buccella intinctio.
[65] Iznik (Turkish).
[66] abortivis? _________
[67] Jacob V.4.
[68] Psalm 80.13.
[69] Psalm 9.21
[70] Psalm 146 (147)20
[71] Robert I, count of Flanders, 1071-1093. The letter is printed in *Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri sectantes*, edited by Heinrich Hagenmayer, Innsbruck, 1901, pp. 129-136
[72] Michael VII Ducas, Parapinaces, 1071-1078.
[73] He was the son of Eucherius, master of Lageri.
[74] Elected abbot of Cluny in 1049.
[75] Odo, nephew of Urban II.
[76] Stephen II, 752-757; Zacharias, 741-752.
[77] Pepin compelled Astolphus to restore Ravenna and other cities to Stephen in 755.
[78] Last Lombard king, 756-774.
[79] A reference to the struggle between Emperor Henry IV and Gregory VII; see Uta-Renate Blumenthal, *The Invest.i.ture Controversy*
Philadelphia, 1988.
[80] Paschal came to France in 1107, with Philip I on the throne.
Isidore of Seville (IX.ii.101) offers two derivations for "Franks."
*Franci a quodam proprio duce vocari putantur. Alii eos a feritate morum nuncupatos existimant* The archdeacon of Mainz clearly was referring to their animal-like behavior.
[81] Jeremiah III.27,28.
[82] An error by Guibert or by the scribe; the council of Clermont began 18 November, 1095.
[83] Sidonius Apollinarus uses *piperata facundia* in Book VIII, epistle xi, of the *Poems and Letters*, ed. W.B. Anderson, Cambridge, 1984, vol I.
[84] Mathew 27.53.
[85] Isaiah 11.10.
[86] Eccl. 1.7
[87] II Thess. ii.4
[88] II Thess ii.3
[89] Luke xxi.24.
[90] John VII.6
[91] II Thess ii.3.
[92] Isaiah 43.5.
[93] Presumably Peter and Paul.
[94] Psalm 47.8.
[95] Psalm 77.7.
[96] These seven elegiacs are the first verses Guibert inserts in the *Gesta Dei*.
[97] Rom X.2
[98] Cla.s.sical Latin for a conical column.
[99] In French, *moisson* means "harvest."
[100] Izmit, on the sea of Marmara. The *Gest Francorum* begins here. A more specific account of the difficulties that produced the separation from the Franks can be found in Albert of Aix, RHC IV.284.
[101] Franci a quodam proprio duce vocari putantur. Alii eos a feritate morum nuncupatos existimant. Sunt enim in illis mores inconditi, naturalis ferocitas animorum. The French are thought to derive their name from one of their leaders. Others think that they derive their name from the ferocity of their behavior. For they are naturally fierce. (Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, ____________ ed.
W.M. Lindsay, Oxford, 1962, vol. 2).
[102] Asia Minor, or the entire Byzantine empire.
[103] Xerigordo, according to Anna Comnena; today, Eski-Kaled.
[104] September 29, 1096.
