Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana

aka Gesta Tancredi Siciliae Regis in expeditione Hierosolymitana [Deeds of Tancred, King of Sicily, in the Jerusalemite Expedition]

Deeds of Tancred in the Crusades

Author

Ralph of Caen

Language

Medieval Latin

Year

written c. 1112-1130

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

christianitymedieval europebiographieshistorythe crusades

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Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana, also known by its full title Gesta Tancredi Siciliae Regis in expeditione Hierosolymitana, is usually called simply Gesta Tancredi, is a prosimetric history written in laconic Latin prose and episodes of verse by Norman chaplain Ralph of Caen. His text provides an exceptional narrative of the First Crusade and events the Crusade entailed, especially those that involved Tancred. It is one of only half a dozen firsthand Latin accounts of those events.