by Frank T. Marzials (Translator), Geoffrey De Villehardouin (Author)
Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople is a classic Middle Eastern history text by Geoffrey de Villehardouin. Be it known to you that eleven hundred and ninety-seven years after the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the time of Innocent Pope of Rome, and Philip King of France, and Richard King of England, there was in France a holy man named Fulk of Neuilly - which Neuilly is between Lagni-sur-Marne and Paris - and he was a priest and held the cure of the village. And this said Fulk began to speak of God throughout the Isle-de-France, and the other countries round about; and you must know that by him the Lord wrought many miracles.