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rning the palaces of the city and stealing the lead from the roofs of the churches and selling it to the greeks so that the emperor was angry and ordered them to cross the hellespont after they had crossed they did not cease from their misdeeds and they burned and laid waste both houses and churches at last they reached nicomedia where the italians and germans broke away from the franks because the franks were intolerably proud the italians chose a leader called rainald the germans also chose a leader and they all went into rum and travelled for four days journey beyond the city of nicea where they found a deserted castle named xerigordo which they took finding therein plenty of corn and wine and meat and abundance of all good things but when the turks heard that the christians were in the castle they came and besieged it before its gate was a well and beneath its walls a spring where rainald went out to lay an ambush for the turks but when they arrived on michaelmas day they caught rainald and his company and killed many of them the survivors fled into the castle which the turks at once besieged cutting off the water supply our men were therefore so terribly afflicted by thirst that they bled their horses and asses and drank the blood others let down belts and clothes into a sewer and squeezed out the liquid into their mouths others passed water into one another s cupped hands and drank others dug up damp earth and lay down on their backs piling the earth upon their chests because they were so dry with thirst the bishops and priests encouraged our men and told them not to despair this miserable state of affairs went on for eight days then the leader of the germans made an agreement to betray his comrades to the turks and pretending that he was going out to fight he fled to them and many men went with him of the remainder those who would not renounce god were killed others whom the turks captured alive were divided among their captors like sheep some were put up as targets and shot with arrows others sold and given away as if they were brute beasts some of the turks took their prisoners home to khorasan antioch or aleppo or wherever they happened to live these men were the first to endure blessed martyrdom for the name of our lord jesus so often while trying to live my life some unexpected nemesis has come along who exasperates me into some kind of conflict often it s just an asshole who takes out his wrath on me because i got in his way or maybe it s someone on a mission that has little or nothing to do with me in any case whoever it is gets pushy or obnoxious and i want to react this has happened in the military at work in a few bars when i was young and just out and about especially on the road sometimes i ve started to engage in some kind of conflict with such people for the sake of my ego or temper just to push back one stupid recent example comes to mind while driving to work on a four lane road a black pickup truck raced up behind me so quickly that his appearance in my rear view mirror caused me to flinch in surprise he shot around me and then nearly clipped my car as he cut me off for no apparent reason i was immediately furious he stopped at the next stoplight and since it turned green before i reached the light and he was already stopped i took the opportunity to cut him off almost as aggressively as he had cut me off a minute before i anticipated his rage and his speed so i dashed ahead as fast as my toyota would allow while he shot ahead from the stoplight he soon paced me in the other lane i guess to threaten me and i shouted fuck you through the closed window and flipped him off the slender vaguely snake like man in his forties glared down at me from his truck then we both had to stop for the next red light he powered his window down and i powered down mine he said almost calmly while i glared at him you don t want to mess with me not today i don t fucking care do you want to mess with me something about this man seemed off i processed the situation quickly in a few mental images in a moment of clarity it sounds stupid but i remembered those barbarians at constantinople as i had remembered them many times before i instantly had some compassion for the poor bastard he was half unhinged on some kind of stupid crusade and what did it really have to do with me i guess i already made my point no maybe i don t want to mess with you that s good he said as the traffic collected behind us cause today i don t fucking care and when the light turned green i let him launch his truck forward while i just cruised along knowing i would never see the son of a bitch again some men might have felt humiliated for standing down but it seemed like a victory to me i hadn t been a pushover but i had avoided getting sucked into a situation where i stood to gain nothing only to potentially lose all for what my own ego my own lack of control in my head i said a prayer for this bastard in whatever he was going through all things considered he and i were probably more alike than not both of us shit on by a hollow inhuman system he was aflame in his crusade whatever it was and i had my own drudging business to attend to best to just get out of his way there are many such cases when somebody comes along wound up with a mission that has nothing to do with me it s best to just step out of the way if i can the earlier the better and maybe even help the offender along best to avoid getting sucked into whatever trouble surrounds him and to keep my own missions in mind and that s pretty much what alexios komnenos did with each army of rabid arrogant hot headed crusaders as they came along one after another in that first crusade the emperor s stakes and the scale of events were enormous but the lesson is universal and can be scaled down to even everyday situations addendum the following isn t essential to this article but princess anna komnena the daughter of emperor alexios i also wrote an interesting contemporary account of the people s crusade in her history the alexiad for the whole of the west and all the barbarian tribes which dwell between the further side of the adriatic and the pillars of heracles had all migrated in a body and were marching into asia through the intervening europe and were making the journey with all their household the reason of this upheaval was more or less the following a certain frank peter by name nicknamed cucupeter had gone to worship at the holy sepulchre and after suffering many things at the hands of the turks and saracens who were ravaging asia he got back to his own country with difficulty but he was angry at having failed in his object and wanted to undertake the same journey again however he saw that he ought not to make the journey to the holy sepulchre alone again lest worse things befall him so he worked out a cunning plan this was to preach in all the latin countries that the voice of god bids me announce to all the counts in france that they should all leave their homes and set out to worship at the holy sepulchre and to endeavour wholeheartedly with hand and mind to deliver jerusalem from the hand of the hagarenes and he really succeeded for after inspiring the souls of all with this quasi divine command he contrived to assemble the franks from all sides one after the other with arms horses and all the other paraphernalia of war and they were all so zealous and eager that every highroad was full of them and those frankish soldiers were accompanied by an unarmed host more numerous than the sand or the stars carrying palms and crosses on their shoulders women and children too came away from their countries and the sight of them was like many rivers streaming from all sides and they were advancing towards us through dacia generally with all their hosts now the coming of these many peoples was preceded by a locust which did not touch the wheat but made a terrible attack on the vines this was really a presage as the diviners of the time interpreted it and meant that this enormous frankish army would when it came refrain from interference in christian affairs but fall very heavily upon the barbarian ishmaelites who were slaves to drunkenness wine and dionysus for this race is under the sway of dionysus and eros rushes headlong into all kind of sexual intercourse and is not circumcised either in the flesh or in their passions it is nothing but a slave nay triply enslaved to the ills wrought by aphrodite for this reason they worship and adore astarte and ashtaroth too and value above all the image of the moon and the golden figure of hobar in their country now in these symbols christianity was taken to be the corn because of its wineless and very nutritive qualities in this manner the diviners interpreted the vines and the wheat however let the matter of the prophecy rest the incidents of the barbarians approach followed in the order i have described and persons of intelligence could feel that they were witnessing a strange occurrence the arrival of these multitudes did not take place at the same time nor by the same road for how indeed could such masses starting from different places have crossed the straits of lombardy all together some first some next others after them and thus successively all accomplished the transit and then marched through the continent each army was preceded as we said by an unspeakable number of locusts and all who saw this more than once recognized them as forerunners of the frankish armies when the first of them began crossing the straits of lombardy sporadically the emperor summoned certain leaders of the roman forces and sent them to the parts of dyrrachium and valona with instructions to offer a courteous welcome to the franks who had crossed and to collect abundant supplies from all the countries along their route then to follow and watch them covertly all the time and if they saw them making any foraging excursions they were to come out from under cover and check them by light skirmishing these captains were accompanied by some men who knew the latin tongue so that they might settle any disputes that arose between them meanwhile peter the hermit after he had delivered his message crossed the straits of lombardy before anybody else with eighty thousand men on foot and one hundred thousand on horseback and reached the capital by way of hungary for the frankish race as one may conjecture is always very hotheaded and eager but when once it has espoused a cause it is uncontrollable the emperor knowing what peter had suffered before from the turks advised him to wait for the arrival of the other counts but peter would not listen for he trusted to the multitude of his followers so crossed and pitched his camp near a small town called helenopolis after him followed the normans numbering ten thousand who separated themselves from the rest of the army and devastated the country round nicæa and behaved most cruelly to all for they dismembered some of the children and fixed others on wooden spits and roasted them at the fire and on persons advanced in age they inflicted every kind of torture but when the inhabitants of nicæa became aware of these doings they threw open their gates and marched out upon them and after a violent conflict had taken place they had to dash back inside their citadel as the normans fought so bravely and thus the latter recovered all the booty and returned to helenopolis then a dispute arose between them and the others who had not gone out with them as is usual in such cases for the minds of those who had stayed behind were aflame with envy and thus caused a skirmish after which the headstrong normans drew apart again marched to xerigordus and took it by assault when the sultan heard what had happened he dispatched elchanes against them with a substantial force he came and recaptured xerigordus and sacrificed some of the normans to the sword and took others captive at the same time laid plans to catch those who had remained behind with cucupeter peter the hermit he placed ambushes in suitable spots so that any coming from the camp in the direction of nicæa would fall into them unexpectedly and be killed besides this as he knew the franks love of money he sent for two active minded men and ordered them to go to cucupeter s camp and proclaim there that the normans had gained possession of nicæa and were now dividing everything in it when this report was circulated among peter s followers it upset them terribly directly they heard the words partition and money they started in a disorderly crowd along the road to nicæa all but unmindful of their military experience and the discipline which is essential for those starting out to battle for as i remarked above the latin race is always very fond of money but more especially when it is bent on raiding a country it then loses its reason and gets beyond control as they journeyed neither in ranks nor in squadrons they fell foul of the turkish ambuscades near the river dracon and perished miserably and such a large number of franks and normans were the victims of the ishmaelite sword that when they piled up the corpses of the slaughtered men which were lying on either side they formed i say not a very large hill or mound or a peak but a high mountain as it were of very considerable depth and breadth so great was the pyramid of bones and later men of the same tribe as the slaughtered barbarians built a wall and used the bones of the dead to fill the interstices as if they were pebbles and thus made the city their tomb in a way this fortified city is still standing to day with its walls built of a mixture of stones and bones share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading leave a comment by janus on 25 july 2026 permalink posted in janus tagged conflict crusades missions in life philosophy of force posted by janus on 25 july 2026 https finesetinitia wordpress com 2026 07 25 a practical life lesson from the first crusade william lind s retroculture generational fads and broader societal shifts 18 july 2026 patulcius in his 2019 book retroculture taking america back william s lind details how people can actively incorporate elements of past culture into their lives in order to reconnect with their roots how do we recover the good things our grandparents had the slower life time for hobbies family and interests less rampant consumerism in our daily lives the answer is retroculture s little secret what is it we get there by living as they did by adopting a retroculture lifestyle of course this does not mean we return to the past in everything we will not give up modern medicine even the amish go to doctors junk the furnace and the air conditioner or keep slaves each person will be free to decide how retro he wants to live some will want to go farther than others and no one is wrong for only going far enough to give their life the 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