| Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1881 - 272 pages
...banner of the Cross, and, proclaimed King of Jerusalem, accepted only the title of Defender, refusing to wear a crown of gold where his Lord had worn a crown of thorns. From Philippopolis to the gates of Constantinople he had withstood all the wiles and arts of Alexios,... | |
| Archibald Hastie Dick - 1882 - 126 pages
...office, but said that he would not be called king, for there was but one King of Jerusalem. Nor would he wear a crown of gold, where his Lord had worn a crown of thorns. But he ruled well, and when he died in the year 1100, he was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.... | |
| 1888 - 932 pages
...kingdom of Jerusalem was then founded, of which Godfrey was unanimously elected sovereign ; but he refused to wear a crown of gold where his Lord had worn a crown of thorns, and accepted, instead of the kingly title, the humbler designation of defender and baron of the Holy Sepulchre.... | |
| Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1898 - 634 pages
...On the foundation of a Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, he was unanimously elected sovereign ; but he refused to wear a crown of gold where his Lord had worn a crown of thorns, and accepted, instead of the kingly title, the humbler designation of Defender and Baron of the Holy Sepulchre.... | |
| Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - 1910 - 546 pages
...Dorylœum, 1097; took Antioch, 1098, and Jerusalem, July 15, 1099; declared King of Jerusalem, but declined to wear a crown of gold where his Lord had worn a crown of thorns, and refused the title of king, preferring that of Defender and Baron of the Holy Sepulcher; defeated the... | |
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