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Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872
Subjects: Crusades
Publisher: London J.W. Parker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Joscelin of Tellbasher, William of Cerdagne, andTancred. When these princes appeared, an arrange-ment was effected, which brought all the disputes to a ter-mination. Tancred gave up all the places which heheld belonging to Baldwin and Joscelin, and the king in-vested him with the fiefs of Tiberias, Nazareth, and Khai-fa; William kept Tortosa, Area, and such places as hehad conquered himself; the remainder were given toBertram, who was also to have Tripolis, when it shouldbe taken, and Bertram did homage to the king for his pos-sessions. All seemed now to be adjusted, when a quarrelarose between the attendants of the counts of Cerdagneand Toulouse ; and as the former hastened to put an endto it, he was mortally wounded by an arrow : the authorof the deed never was discovered, but Bertram was unableto clear himself from the suspicion of having procuredthe death of his kinsman. The death of the count of Cerdagne, however, causedno interruption to the preparations against Tripolis. The k3
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1110-12.) DEATH OF TANCRED. 203 people of this town had expelled their Turkish governor,and put themselves under the khaleefeh of Egypt. Butthis prince laid heavy burdens on them, and severely pu-nished all offences. This doubtless diminished their en-thusiasm, but they made nevertheless a gallant defence,and at last surrendered on conditions of free egress forthemselves and their movable property. But as they weredeparting, the Genoese and Pisans scaled the wall and be-gan to massacre and plunder. A great number of theSaracens thus lost their lives, and a magnificent publiclibrary was burned by the illiterate crusaders. The following year (1110) Berythus was taken, and theItalians acted just as they had done at Tripolis. A fleetof Norwegian pilgrims, under Sigurd, the son of theirking, aided to take Sidon, and their fidelity to their en-gagements honourably distinguished them from the Ita-lian traders. In the year 1111, a fruitless attempt wasmade on Tyre, which proved stronger than

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