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Having persevered there for a little while, in order to give themselves some rest from the hardship of the war, and at the same time taking thought for Antioch, they sought for someone to guard it. It was Bohemond, as he had requested before the city was taken. Having ceded to him all authority over Antioch, they themselves took the road leading to Jerusalem. As they passed through, they seized many of the coastal forts; but as many as were very strong and required a longer siege, they passed by for the time being, and hastened towards Jerusalem. Surrounding the walls and besieging it with frequent assaults, they took it within a single lunar period, having killed many of the Saracens and Hebrews inside. When all had been subjected to them, since there was no one to oppose them, they entrusted all authority to Godfrey and named him king.

11.7.1 When the attack of the Celts was announced to Amerimnes, the ruler of Babylon, and how both Jerusalem and Antioch itself and many other cities adjacent to it had been taken by them, he then gathered a great multitude of Armenians and Arabs, both Saracens and Hagarenes, and sent them out against them. When this was announced to the Celts by Godfrey, they then armed themselves against them and, going down to Jaffa, awaited their attack; then from there they seized Ramla, where the great martyr George had suffered martyrdom, and uniting with the army of Amerimnes coming against them, they joined battle with them. And the Celts were immediately victorious. 11.7.2 But on the next day, when the vanguard of the phalanx attacked from the rear, the Latins were defeated, being saved as far as Ramla. Only Count Baldwin was absent, having taken to flight not as a coward, but as one who would provide something better for both his own safety and that of the army against the Babylonians. The Babylonians, having arrived and making a circular siege of Ramla, quickly took it. Many of the Latins were then killed, and even more were sent as captives to Babylon. Returning from there, the entire armed force of the Babylonians hastened to the siege of Jaffa; for such is always the barbarian way. But the aforementioned Baldwin, going around all the towns that had been captured by the Franks and gathering not a few horsemen and foot soldiers, formed a formidable army and from there attacked the Babylonians and defeated them utterly. 11.7.3 The emperor, having learned of the defeat of the Latins at Ramla, was greatly grieved at the captivity of the counts, since he knew them to be celebrated from of old for their beauty, physical strength, and illustriousness of family, and he could not bear for them to be prisoners of war any longer in a foreign land. Therefore, he sent for a certain man called Bardales and, giving him sufficient funds for their ransom, dispatched him to Babylon, entrusting to him also the letters to Amerimnes concerning the counts. And he, having unrolled the emperor's letters, returned the counts without a price, with great joy, except for Godfrey. For he had already sold him for a price to his own brother Baldwin. When the counts arrived at the great city, the emperor received them honorably, and giving them sufficient money and letting them rest for a good while, he sent them home rejoicing. And Godfrey, having been restored as king of Jerusalem, sent his brother Baldwin to Edessa. 11.7.4 At that time, the emperor also instructed Isangeles to entrust Laodicea to Andronikos Tzintziloukes, and Maraclea and Balaneus to those under Eumathios, who was then doux of Cyprus, and that he should advance further and

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ὀλίγον οὖν αὐτοῦ που ἐγκαρτερήσαντες ἐφ' ᾧ τῆς τοῦ πολέμου κακοπαθείας ἑαυτοὺς διαναπαῦσαι, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τῆς Ἀντιόχου φροντίδα ποιούμενοι ἀνεζήτουν τὸν ταύτην φρουρήσοντα. Ἦν δὲ ὁ Βαϊμοῦντος, καθά γε πρὸ τοῦ τὴν πόλιν ἁλῶναι φθάσας ᾐτήσατο. Παρακεχωρηκότες δὲ αὐτῷ τῆς ἁπάσης ἐξουσίας τῆς Ἀντιόχου αὐτοὶ τῆς πρὸς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα φερούσης ἥψαντο. Ἐν δὲ τῷ διέρχεσθαι πολλὰ μὲν τῶν παραλίων κάστρων κατέσχον· ὁπόσα δὲ ἐρυμνότατα ὄντα πλείονος ἐδεῖτο τῆς πολιορκίας παραδραμόντες τῷ τέως αὐτά, πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἔσπευδον. Περιζώσαντες δὲ τὰ τείχη καὶ πυκναῖς προσβολαῖς πολιορκοῦντες, αὐτὴν διὰ μιᾶς σεληνιακῆς περιόδου κατέσχον πολλοὺς τῶν ἐντὸς Σαρα κηνῶν καὶ Ἑβραίων ἀνῃρηκότες. Πάντων δὲ ὑποταγέντων αὐτοῖς, ἐπεὶ ὁ ἀντιβαίνων οὐδείς, τὴν ἐξουσίαν ἅπασαν τῷ Γοντοφρὲ ἀναθέμενοι ῥῆγα τοῦτον ὠνόμασαν.

11.7.1 ∆ιαμηνυθείσης δὲ τῆς τῶν Κελτῶν ἐφόδου τῷ ἐξουσιαστῇ Βαβυλῶνος Ἀμεριμνῇ, καὶ ὅπως παρ' αὐτῶν ἥ τε Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἑάλω καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ Ἀντιόχου καὶ ἄλλαι πολλαὶ πόλεις αἱ ταύτῃ παρακείμεναι παρὰ τῶν Κελτῶν κατεσχέ θησαν, τηνικαῦτα πολὺ πλῆθος συναγηοχὼς ἔκ τε Ἀρμε νίων καὶ Ἀράβων Σαρακηνῶν τε καὶ Ἀγαρηνῶν κατ' αὐτῶν ἐξαπέστειλε. Τούτου διαμηνυθέντος παρὰ τοῦ Γοντοφρὲ τοῖς Κελτοῖς, τηνικαῦτα ὡπλίσαντο κατ' αὐτῶν καὶ κατελ θόντες εἰς τὸ Ἰάφα τὴν ἐκείνων περιέμενον ἔφοδον· εἶτα ἐκεῖθεν κατέλαβον τὸ Ῥάμελ, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ὁ μεγαλόμαρτυρ Γεώργιος μεμαρτύρηκε, καὶ ἑνωθέντες τῷ κατ' αὐτῶν ἐρχομένῳ στρατεύματι τοῦ Ἀμεριμνῆ συνῆψαν πόλεμον μετ' αὐτῶν. Καὶ τὴν νικῶσαν εἶχον εὐθὺς οἱ Κελτοί. 11.7.2 Τῇ δὲ μετ' αὐτὴν καταλαβόντος ἐξ ὀπισθίων τοῦ προμετω πίου τῆς φάλαγγος ἡττήθησαν οἱ Λατῖνοι μέχρι τοῦ Ῥά μελ περισωθέντες. Μόνος δὲ ὁ Βαλδουῖνος κόμης ἀπῆν φυγαδείᾳ χρησάμενος οὐχ ὡς ἄνανδρος, ἀλλ' ὥς τι κρεῖττον προμηθευσόμενος περί τε τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σωτηρίας καὶ τοῦ κατὰ τῶν Βαβυλωνίων στρατεύματος. Καταλαβόντες δὲ οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι καὶ κυκλοτερῆ τὴν πολιορκίαν τοῦ Ῥάμελ ποιούμενοι θᾶττον τοῦτο κατέσχον. Πολλοὶ δὲ τῶν Λατί νων τηνικαῦτα κτείνονται, πλείους δὲ καὶ ζωγρία πρὸς Βαβυλῶνα ἐστάλησαν. Ἐκεῖθεν δὲ ὑποστρέφον τὸ ὁπλιτικὸν ἅπαν τῶν Βαβυλωνίων πρὸς τὴν πολιορκίαν τοῦ Ἰάφα ἠπείγετο· τοιοῦτον γὰρ τὸ βάρβαρον ἀεί. Ὁ δέ γε ἀνωτέρω ῥηθεὶς Βαλδουῖνος, τὰς παρὰ τῶν Φράγγων ἑαλωκυίας κωμοπόλεις ἁπάσας περιιὼν οὐκ ὀλίγους τε συναγηοχὼς ἱππεῖς καὶ πεζούς, ἀξιόμαχον στράτευμα συνεστήσατο κἀντεῦθεν τοῖς Βαβυλωνίοις ἐπελθὼν ἥττησε κατὰ κράτος. 11.7.3 Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς τὴν κατὰ τὸ Ῥάμελ τῶν Λατίνων ἧτταν μεμαθηκώς, περιαλγήσας ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν κομήτων αἰχμαλωσίᾳ, ἅτε γινώσκων αὐτοὺς κατά τε ὥραν καὶ ῥώμην σώματος καὶ περιφάνειαν γένους τῶν πάλαι ὑμνουμένων, οὐκ ἔφερεν ἐπὶ πλέον τούτους δορυαλώτους ἐπὶ ξένης εἶναι. Ἔνθεν τοι μεταπεμψάμενός τινα Βαρδαλῆν καλούμενον χρήματά τε ἱκανὰ ἐπιδοὺς πρὸς τὴν ἐκείνων ἀνάρρυσιν πρὸς Βαβυλῶνα ἐκπέπομφεν, ἐγχειρίσας αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ πρὸς τὸν Ἀμε ριμνῆν γράμματα περὶ τῶν κομήτων διαλαμβάνοντα. Ὁ δέ, τὰς τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος ἀνελίξας γραφάς, ἄτερ τιμῆς τοὺς κόμητας ἀπεδίδου μετὰ περιχαρείας πλὴν τοῦ Γοντοφρέ. Ἐκεῖνον γὰρ προφθάσας πρὸς τὸν αὐτάδελφον αὐτοῦ Βαλ δουῖνον τιμῆς ἀπέδοτο. Καταλαβόντας δὲ τὴν μεγαλόπολιν τοὺς κόμητας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐντίμως ἐδέξατο χρήματά τε ἱκανὰ ἐπιδοὺς καὶ ἐφ' ἱκανὸν τούτους διαναπαύσας χαίρον τας ἐξαπέστειλεν οἴκαδε. Ὁ δὲ Γοντοφρὲ ῥὴξ Ἱεροσολύμων αὖθις ἀποκαταστὰς τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ Βαλδουῖνον εἰς Ἔδεσαν ἐκπέπομφε. 11.7.4 Τότε δὴ καὶ ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ τῷ Ἰσαγγέλῃ ἐπέσκηψε τὴν μὲν Λαοδίκειαν Ἀνδρονίκῳ τῷ Τζιντζιλούκῃ ἀναθέσθαι, τὸ δέ γε Μαρακέως καὶ τὸ Βαλα νέως τοῖς ὑπὸ τὸν Εὐμάθιον δοῦκα Κύπρου τῷ τότε ὑπάρ χοντα, ἐκεῖνον δὲ προσωτέρω βαδίσαι καὶ