Simson’s account shows his loathing of the Christian Crusaders but he provides a list of martyrs which helps to support his account. Al-Athir’s account describes their loss in the First Crusade, is more believable than the Fulcher’s account, and is supported by Simson’s and Comnena’s accounts. Comnena’s account shows a violent side of the Christians, and that they attacked their own fellow Christians. Fulcher’s account has many inconsistencies, both in his views regarding the Crusade and the reality as well as his account versus the other three accounts. Fulcher says that the Crusade was fought for God, but in the other accounts as well as his own he shows that the Christian Crusaders were greedy. The Christians even “split open the bellies of those they had just slain in order to extract from the intestines the coins” . This invalidates the belief that the Christians fought for God alone. The victors of the First Crusade were the Christians, and yet the Christian accounting of the event has the most disparagies, from the purpose to how many were really killed. The victors have different account of history than the defeated, the victims, and even those of a
Simson’s account shows his loathing of the Christian Crusaders but he provides a list of martyrs which helps to support his account. Al-Athir’s account describes their loss in the First Crusade, is more believable than the Fulcher’s account, and is supported by Simson’s and Comnena’s accounts. Comnena’s account shows a violent side of the Christians, and that they attacked their own fellow Christians. Fulcher’s account has many inconsistencies, both in his views regarding the Crusade and the reality as well as his account versus the other three accounts. Fulcher says that the Crusade was fought for God, but in the other accounts as well as his own he shows that the Christian Crusaders were greedy. The Christians even “split open the bellies of those they had just slain in order to extract from the intestines the coins” . This invalidates the belief that the Christians fought for God alone. The victors of the First Crusade were the Christians, and yet the Christian accounting of the event has the most disparagies, from the purpose to how many were really killed. The victors have different account of history than the defeated, the victims, and even those of a