Adhemar, Bishop of Le Puy

• Apostolic legate

• Spiritual leader of the First Crusade

• Died August 1098, prior to the capture of Jerusalem

Raymond of Toulouse

• Fought against the Moors in Spain before 1096.

• deeply religious• Crusade leader after

Adhemar’s death• Rivalry with

Bohemond

Bohemond of Taranto

• Son of Robert Guiscard

• served under his father in on the Byzantine Empire (1080–1085)

• Prince of Antioch

Tancred

Godfrey of Bouillon

Robert of Normandy

Robert of Flanders

Peter the Hermit

Peter the Hermit, a priest of Amiens, who may, as Anna Comnena says, have attempted to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem before 1096, and have been prevented by the Turks from reaching his destination.

He soon leapt into fame as an emotional revivalist preacher: his very ass became an object of popular adoration; and thousands of peasants eagerly took the cross at his bidding.

Walter the Penniless

• Lieutenant to Peter the Hermit on the People's Crusade

King William II of England

• King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.

Philip I of France

• Philip I (23 May 1052 – 29 July 1108), was King of France from 1060 to his death.