[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER LX: The Fourth Crusade 32/42
1, with the observations of Ducange, which I always mean to quote with the original text.] [Footnote 26: The contemporary life of Pope Innocent III., published by Baluze and Muratori, (Scriptores Rerum Italicarum, tom.iii.pars i. p.
486--568), is most valuable for the important and original documents which are inserted in the text.
The bull of the crusade may be read, c. 84, 85.] [Footnote 27: Por-ce que cil pardon, fut issi gran, si s'en esmeurent mult li cuers des genz, et mult s'en croisierent, porce que li pardons ere si gran.
Villehardouin, No.1.Our philosophers may refine on the causes of the crusades, but such were the genuine feelings of a French knight.] [Footnote 28: This number of fiefs (of which 1800 owed liege homage) was enrolled in the church of St.Stephen at Troyes, and attested A.D.
1213, by the marshal and butler of Champagne, (Ducange, Observ.p.
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