THE DEPARTURE FROM AIGUES-MORTES
Book XV.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

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THE DEPARTURE FROM AIGUES-MORTES

The king of Sicily had taken the cross without the least inclination to embark for Asia ; and when the question was discussed in council, he gave it as his opinion that Tunis should be the object of the first attack. The kingdom of Tunis covered the seas with pirates, who infested all the routes to Palestine ; it was, besides, the ally of Egypt, and might, if subdued, be made the readiest road to that country. These were the ostensible reasons put forth ; the true ones were, that it was of importance to the king of Sicily that the coasts of Africa should be brought under European subjection, and that he did not wish to go too far from Italy. The true reason with St. Louis, and that which, no doubt, determined him, was, that he believed it possible to convert the king of Tunis, and thus bring a vast kingdom under the Christian banners. At length the unwilling Crusaders, stimulated by repeated exhortations, and by the example of Louis, set forward on their march from all the provinces, and directed their course towards the ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseilles. Before he embarked, the king wrote once more to the regents of the kingdom, to recommend them to watch carefully over public morals, to deliver France from corrupt judges, and to render to everybody, particularly to the poor, prompt and perfect justice, so that He who judges the judgements of men might have nothing to reproach them with. - Book XV

*Notes; pages 183, Louis finds the principal nobles nor the Genoese fleet who were to embark with him. . pages 184, 185 . . . Such were the last farewells that Louis took of France. The fleet set sail on the fourth of July, 1270 and in a few days arrived in the road of Cagliari.

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