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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 499 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBERT OF AI% (fl. c. A.D. 1100), historian of the first crusade, was See also:born during the later See also:part of the rith See also:century, and afterwards became See also:canon and custos of the See also:church of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle. Nothing else is known of his See also:life except that he was the author of a Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditions, or Chronicon Hierosolymitanum de See also:bello sacra, a See also:work in twelve books,written between 1125 and 1150. This See also:history begins at the See also:time of the See also:council of Clermont, deals with the fortunes of the first crusade and the earlier history of the Latin See also:kingdom of See also:Jerusalem, and ends somewhat abruptly in 1121. It was well known during the See also:middle ages, and was largely used by See also:William, See also:archbishop of See also:Tyre, for the first six books of his See also:Belli sacri historia. In See also:modern times its See also:historical value has been seriously impugned, but the See also:verdict of the best scholarship seems to be that in See also:general it forms a true See also:record of the events of the first crusade, although containing some legendary See also:matter. Albert never visited the See also:Holy See also:Land, but he appears to have had a considerable amount of intercourse with returned crusaders, and to have had See also:access to valuable See also:correspondence. The first edition of the history was published at Helmstadt in 1584, and a See also:good edition is in the Recueil See also:des historiens des croisades, tome iv. (See also:Paris, 1841—1887). See F. Krebs, Zur Kritik Alberts von Aachen (See also:Munster, 1881); B.

Kugler, Albert von Aachen (See also:

Stuttgart, 1885) ; M. Pigeonneau, Le See also:Cycle de la croisade et de la See also:famine de See also:Bouillon (Paris, 1877) ;H. von See also:Sybel, Geschickte des ersten Kreuzzuges (See also:Leipzig, 1881) ; F. Vercruysse, Essai critique sur la chronique d'Albert d'Aix (See also:Liege, 1889).

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