THE PERIOD OF THE CRUSADES. 



Ill connection with tlie First Crusade (1095-1099) mention of 

 Dor is made by several historians. Foucher de Chartres', wlio 

 liimself took part in the events he is narrating, traces the route 

 taken in 1009 by the Frencli along the coast on their journey to 

 Jerusalem. After a futile attempt to capture Archas, a city near 

 the Lebanons, the army was proceeding down the coast. Regard- 

 ing the march from Acre to Caesarea Foucher writes as follows : 



Accon vero, id est Ptholomaida, ab Austro habet Carmeli raon- 

 tera. luxta quam transeuntes ad dexteram reliquerunt oppidum 

 Caypham^ dictum, post haec iuxta Doram^, exin, iuxta Caesaream 

 Palaestinae incessimus, quae (juidem anti(|uitus dicta est altero 

 nomine Turris Stratonis, in ((ua Herodes .... exspiravit infeli- 

 citer. 



The anonymous author of the Gesta Francorum Iherusalem 

 Expugnantium, writing before 1109 (who himself declares that his 

 work is an abridgment of that by Foucher de Chartres), records 

 this same march down the coast^ : 



Transeuntes autem Achilon\ invenerunt oppidum Caypha dic- 

 tum, quod est sub Carmelo monte, et habet mare ob Oriente, mon- 

 tem vero ab Oceidente. Dehiuc Caesaream Palaestinae adorsi 

 sunt, quae quidem Dor" antiquitus, a quibusdam vero Turris Stra- 

 tonis nuncupata est, in qua Herodes .... infeliciter exspiravit. 



This account adds nothing to the information given by Foucher 

 de Chartres. It is suggestive, however, in that the carelessness 

 with which the author handles his source warns us against expect- 

 ing any great amount of accuracy in Crusading historians. 



^ Recueil des Historiens des Croisades, Historiens Occidentaux III, pp. 

 XXVII, 3o4: Gesta Dei per Francos, ed. Bougars, I, p. 39C. 



- I.e., Haifa. 



3 One MSS. (F in the Bibliotheque de I'Arsenal, Paris) and ed. Bongars 

 add: " vel Pirgul." This is doubtless a corruption of -vpyoQ (see Guerin, 

 Sam. II, p. 314), and refers probably to Caesarea, whose ancient name was 

 Tivpyog 'LrpciTuvog (= Turris Stratonis). 



^Recueil, Hist. Occident., III. pp. XXXVI, 508. 



^ I.e., Acre (or Accho or Accon). 



'^ This is, of course, an error on the part of the writer. Possibly he is 

 following Isidor of Spain, who makes the same mistake (see above, p. 109). 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XX. 8 1915. 



