A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1097. 



Which Lady being long time vexed with a grievous 

 [I. i. II.] malady, was in extremitie, where at length paying the 

 debt due to nature, she changed this transitorie life, for 

 life eternall ; Who, in her life time, was a very worthy 

 and vertuous Lady, borne in England, and descended of 

 most noble parentage named Gutwere ; Which, according 

 to her degree, was there most honourably enterred, to 

 the great griefe of all the whole armie. As reporteth 

 William Archbishop of Tyre, lib. 3. cap. 17. hist, belli 

 sacri. The same author in the 10. booke & first chapter 

 of the same historie concerning the same English Lady, 

 writeth further as followeth, Baldwine having folowed 

 the warres for a time, gave his minde to marriage, so 

 that being in England he fell in love with a very honour- 

 able and noble Lady named Gutwere, whom he married 

 and caried with him in that first happy expedition, wherin 

 he accompanied his brethren the Lords, duke Godfrey 

 and Eustace, persons very commendable in all vertues 

 and of immortall memorie. But he had hard fortune in 

 his journey, because his foresaid wife, being wearied with 

 a long sicknes finished her life with a happie end neere 

 the citie of Marasia, before the Christian armie came 

 unto Antioch, where she was honourably buried, as we 

 have declared before. 



Chronicon Hierosolymitanum in lib. 3. cap. 27. 

 maketh also mention of this English Lady, 

 v^hich he calleth Godwera in this maner. 



Ac in regione Maresch uxor Baldewini nobilissima, 

 quam de regno Angliae eduxit, diutina corporis 

 molestia aggravata, & duci Godefrido commen- 



data, vitam exhalavit, sepulta Catholicis obsequiis ; cujus 

 nomen erat Godwera. 



The same in English. 



IN this province of Maresch the most noble wife of 

 Baldwine, which he caried with him out of England 

 being visited with dayly sicknesses and infirmities of 



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