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The Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus provides food and escort for the Crusaders (see 1095). He exacts an oath of fealty from the leaders in an effort to protect his title to any recovered "lost provinces" of the Greek Empire, but Count Raymond of Toulouse refuses to take any such oath.
The First Crusade raises more than 30,000 men and converges on Constantinople in three groups as Norman-French barons rush to take the cross. Godfrey of Bouillon and his brother Baldwin lead an army from Lorraine via Hungary (whose new king Coloman grants the crusdaders safe passage), Count Raymond of Toulouse and the papal legate Adhemar of Puy lead an army from Provence via Illyria, and Bohemond of Otranto leads an army from Normandy via Durazzo, traveling both by sea and land. A leading figure is the 18-year-old Norman knight Tancred, a Hauteville nephew of Sicily's Roger Guiscard.
The death of his daughter Teishi so affects Japan's ex-emperor Shirakawa that he shaves his head and becomes a Buddhist priest, but he retains almost dictatorial control of temporal affairs.
French Jews come under attack as the Crusade against the infidel empties entire villages.
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