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Hugh of Vermandois (1053 - October 18, 1101), known as "the Great," was the brother of King Philip I of France, and count of Vermandois. In early 1096 Hugh and Philip began discussing the First Crusade after news of the Council of Clermont reached them in Paris. Although Philip could not participate, as he had been excommunicated, Hugh was said to have been influenced to join the Crusade after an eclipse of the moon on February 11, 1096. That summer Hugh's army left France for Italy, where they would cross the Adriatic Sea into territory of the Byzantine Empire, unlike the other Crusader armies who were travelling by land. On the way, many of the soldiers led by fellow Crusader Emich of Leiningen joined Hugh's army after Emich was defeated by the Hungarians, whose land he had been pillaging. Hugh crossed the Adriatic from Bari in southern Italy, but many of his ships were destroyed in a storm off the Byzantine port of Dyrrhachium. Hugh and most of his army was rescued and escorted to Constantinople, where they arrived in November of 1096. Prior to his arrival, Hugh sent an arrogant, insulting letter to Emperor Alexius I, demanding that Alexius meet with him. Alexius was already wary of the armies about to arrive, after the unruly mob led by Peter the Hermit had passed through earlier in the year. Alexius kept Hugh in custody in a monastery until Hugh swore an oath of vassalage to him. After the Crusaders had successfully made their way across Seljuk territory and, in 1098, captured Antioch, Hugh was sent back to Constantinople to appeal for reinforcements from Alexius. Alexius was uninterested, however, and Hugh, instead of returning to Antioch to help plan the siege of Jerusalem, went back to France. There he was scorned for not having fulfilled his vow as a Crusader to complete a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and Pope Paschal II threated to excommunicate him. He joined the minor Crusade of 1101, but was wounded in battle with the Turks at Heraclea in June, and died of his wounds in October in Tarsus. Family and children He married Adelaide of Vermandois,[19] the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois. They had nine children: Mathilde, married Raoul I of Beaugency[19] Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (d. 1131) Beatrice (fl. 1144), married Hugh IV of Gournay Ralph I (d. 1152) Constance (date of death unknown), married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher Agnes (living 1125), married Boniface del Vasto Henry (d 1130), seigneur of Chaumont en Vexin Simon (d 1148) William (d.c. 1096) Sources Peters, Edward, ed. (1971). The First Crusade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812210174. Riley-Smith, Jonathan (1997). The First Crusaders, 1095-1131. Cambridge University Press. Bury, J. B., ed. (1926). The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume V: Contest of Empire and Papacy. Cambridge at the University Press. Brown, Reginald Allen (1984). The Normans. The Boydell Press. References Guibert of Nogent, Dei gesta per Francos 7.23, R.B.C. Huygens ed., CC CM 127A (Turnhout 1996), 313. Fulcheri Carnotensis, Historia Hierosolymitana, Liber II, XVI, 7, H. Hagenmeyer ed. (Heidelberg 1913), 433n. Peters 1971, p. 35. Cf. Steven Runciman; Rosalind Hill traces the error to the anonymous Gesta Francorum, and explains it as a confusion with the old French "maisné" (younger brother) (R. Hill and R. A. B. Mynors (eds), 'Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, 1962, London, xi-xii). Christopher Tyerman, How to Plan a Crusade. Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages (London 2015), 134. Jean Flori, Pierre L'Ermite et la Première Croisade (Paris 1999), 232. Jean Flori, Pierre L'Ermite et la Première Croisade (Paris 1999), 232. Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade, a new history. The roots of conflict between Christianity and Islam (New York 2004), 56. 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In "Urban's Crusade--Success or Failure" (Key, 1948) it is argued, indeed to the contrary, that the emperor was disturbed by Hugh's report and the disquieting rumors emitting from Antioch (on Bohemond's intent and conduct) and promptly set out to prepare another expedition: "...Alexius immediately began preparations for another expedition, and he furthermore sent envoys to the crusaders to announce its coming." Brown 1984, p. 161. Suger, The Deeds of Louis the Fat, transl. Richard C. Cusimano and John Moorhead, (Catholic University of America Press, 1992), 191-192 note19. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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