List of sources for the Crusades
Author Work Date and provenance Description Editions and translations
Various correspondences between 1088 and 1100 1088-1100 Letters by e.g . Stephen II , Count of Blois , Anselm of Ribemont , Patriarch of Jerusalem ed . H. Hagenmeyer , Epistulae et chartae ad historiam primi belli sacri spectantes : Die Kreuzzugsbriefe aus den Jahren 1088-1100 . Innsbruck , 1902 ; tr . The First Crusade . The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants , ed . A. C. Krey . Gloucester , Massachusetts , 1958
anonymous author associated with Bohemond Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum c . 1100x1106 Latin chronicle of the First Crusade ( 1095-1099 ) , a source used by many medieval historians , including Guibert of Nogent , Fulcher of Chartres , and Baldric of Bourgueil . Likely based on a lost text or texts , also used by Tudebode ed . and tr . Rosalind Hill , Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum . Oxford , 1967
Peter Tudebode , priest from Poitou Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere History of the First Crusade , including an eye-witness account of the Siege of Antioch tr . John H. Hill and Laurita L. Hill , Petrus Tudebodus , Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere . Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 101 . Philadelphia , 1974
Ralph of Caen Gesta Tancredi ed . Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach , The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen : A History of the Normans on the First Crusade . Ashgate Publishing , 2005
Raymond of Aguilers Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem 1099 x1100 The history is in part an eyewitness account , as Raymond , chaplain of Raymond IV of Toulouse , followed the Provençal army of crusaders to Jerusalem ; yet it was based to some extent on the Gesta Francorum tr . John Hugh Hill and Laurita L. Hill . Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society , 1968
Guibert of Nogent Dei gesta per Francos 1107 x 1108 Narrative of the First Crusade , based in part the Gesta Francorum tr . Robert Levine , The Deeds of God through the Franks : A Translation of Guibert de Nogent 's 'Gesta Dei per Francos ' . 1997
Robert the Monk c . 1116 A history of the First Crusade , which purports to be a stylistically superior version of the Gesta Francorum . It includes an account of the Council of Clermont
Albert of Aix Historia Ierosolimitana 1125 x 1150 , Rhineland Latin work in 12 books on the First Crusade , from the Council of Clermont , and later events up to 1121 ed . and tr . Susan B. Edgington , Albert of Aachen : Historia Ierosolimitana , History of the Journey to Jerusalem . Oxford : Oxford Medieval Texts , 2007
Fulcher of Chartres a chronicle/history 1127 or later A history of the First Crusade and the events following ( 1095-1127 ) , which is somewhat partisan to Godfrey of Bouillon and the house of Boulogne . Sources include the Gesta Francorum ed . Harold S. Fink and tr . Francis Rita Ryan , Fulcher of Chartres , A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem , 1095-1127 . Knoxville : Univ . of Tennessy Press , 1969
Ekkehard of Aura ( d. 1126 ) Ekkehard was an eyewitness of the Crusade of 1101 tr . W. Pflüger , Die Chronik des Ekkehard von Aura . Leipzig , 1893
William of Tyre ( d. 1186 ) Historia 1170 x 1184 History in 23 books , covering a period from the 7th century to early 1184 , but above all a history of the Crusades . For events prior to 1127 , sources include Fulcher of Chartres , Albert of Aix , Raymond of Aguilers , Baldric of Dol and the Gesta Francorum ed . R.B.C . Huygens , Willemi Tyrensis Archiepiscopi Chronicon . Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis 38 . Turnholt : Brepols , 1986 ; tr . E.A . Babcock and A.C. Krey , William of Tyre , A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea . Columbia University Press , 1943
Ernoul , squire of Balian of Ibelin Chronicle late 12th century chronicle dealing with the fall of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
List of Histories of the First and Second Crusades
The relevant medieval historiography of the period is edited in Recueil des historiens des croisades (RHC, 1841-1906). The RHC is divided into five series: