Jacques de Bongars Sources

• parsed from wikipedia and RareMaps.com

Gesta Dei per Francos (“God’s Work Through the Franks”) was published under the Title Gesta Dei per Francos Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regnifrancorum Hierosolimitani Historia. It is a compilation of accounts of the Crusades. Part 1 consisted of 13 texts and fragments including most of the then surviving major narratives of the First Crusade. Part 2 was taken from

• a manuscript by Pierre Dubois (c. 1255 – after 1321) advocating for and outlining strategies for a successful renewed Crusade


• Liber Secreta fidelium crucis (Secrets for True Crusaders) by Marino Sanudo the Elder


• another manuscript which was a compendium of Crusader advice - likely derived from Petau [this Petau ?]