The+Spoils+Taken+by+the+Christians

=//**Chapter 28: The Spoils Taken By the Christians**// =

This may seem strange to you. Our squires and poorer footmen discovered a trick of the Saracens, for they learned that they could find byzants //[note: a gold coin]// in the stomachs and intestines of the dead Saracens, who had swallowed them. Thus, after several days they burned a great heap of dead bodies, that they might more easily get the precious metal from the ashes. Moreover, Tancred broke into the temple of the Lord and most wrongfully stole much gold and silver, also precious stones, but later, repenting of his action, after everything had been accounted for, be restored all to its former place of sanctity.

The carnage over, the crusaders entered the houses and took whatever they found in them. However, this was all done in such a sensible manner that whoever entered a house first received no injury from any one else, whether he was rich or poor. Even though the house was a palace, whatever he found there was his property. Thus many poor men became rich.

Afterward, all, clergy and laymen, went to the Sepulcher of the Lord and His glorious temple, singing the ninth chant. With fitting humility, they repeated prayers and made their offering at the holy places that they had long desired to visit. . ..

It was the eleven hundredth year of our Lord, if you subtract one, when the people of Gaul took the city. It was the 15th day of July when the Franks in their might captured the city. It was the eleven hundredth year minus one after the birth of our Lord, the 15th day of July in the two hundred and eighty-fifth year after the death of Charles the Great and the twelfth year after the death of William I of England.


 * Answer these questions in 3-5 sentences. Use details from the text to support your answer.**
 * 1) In 3-5 Sentences, how does the author describe the crusaders in Document 4?

**Source:** Fulk (or Fulcher) of Chartres, //Gesta Francorum Jerusalem Expugnantium// [The Deeds of the Franks Who Attacked Jerusalem], in Frederick Duncan and August C. Krey, eds., //Parallel Source Problems in Medieval History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912), pp. 109-115. [//Chapter headings added for the etext version to match the more modern translation - Fulk of Chartres, //A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem//, trans. Frances Rita Ryan, (Nashville: University of Tennesee Press, 1969)]