ROSTER (“You can’t tell the crusaders without a program”)
Major Crusaders, listed in the order of their arrival at Constantinople

Godfrey de Boullon (d. 1100)

            Duke of Lower Lorraine (but as an office, not a fief)

            He holds territories of his own back in the Low Countries, below Liège

            He travels with his family, including Eustace III count of Boulogne, and little

                        brother Baldwin (clerically trained)

            A descendent of Charlemagne (in the female line), he takes what is alleged to

                        be Charlemagne’s overland route

            Reaches Constantinople by Christmas Eve, 1096

Hugh of Vermandois “King of Kings” (d. 1115?)

            Brother of King Philip the Fat of France

            Pretentious, but without many resources

            He takes the sea route from Italy to the Byzantine Empire, and is shipwrecked

                        on the Greek shore in early  1097

            He is easily overawed by the Byzantine Emperor

Bohemond of Taranto (d. 1111)

            Leader of the Normans from Southern Italy

            Son of Robert Guiscard (d. 1085), “duke of Apulia,” who consolidated Norman

                        South Italy

            Under his father he fought the Byzantines in the Balkans from 1081-85

            He inherited his father’s Byzantine conquests and took Bari from his younger

                        brother Roger Borsa but his position in South Italy had little future

            The crusader commander most experienced in the East

            He organized late, crossed the Adriatic, and reached Constantinople in April 1097

Raymond, Count of Toulouse, Count of Saint-Gilles, Count of Narbonne (d. 1106?)

Most senior commander (55 years old), leader of the largest army, earliest major

            figure recruited—he wants to be leader under the legate Adémar of Puy

            Also has a Provençal fleet

            Marches down the Balkan Coast on a nasty contested road

            Reaches Constantinople in April 1097

Robert of Normandy (“Robert Curthose”) (d. in his brother’s prison in the 1130s)

            William the Conqueror’s oldest son, duke of Normandy

            Travels with Stephen of Blois, his brother-in-law (married to William’s daughter

                        Adela)

            Travels with Count Robert II of Flanders

            Sails from South Italy, reached Constantinople in May of 1097

Ademar of Puy (d. 1098), papal legate to the crusade, as described in his Gesta obit: 

“He used to keep the clergy in order and preach to the knights, warning them saying,

'None of you can be saved if he does not respect the poor and succour them. 

You cannot be saved without them, and they cannot survive without you.’”