[9] _Li estoire de Jérusalem et d’ Antioche_, in _H. C. Oc._, v, pp. 629-630. This chronicle, in old French prose of the second half of the thirteenth century, is based ultimately upon Fulcher of Chartres, but it is filled with matter of a purely imaginary character. It seems to contain almost no points of contact with the other sources from which the Robert legends are to be drawn. It represents Robert as taking part in the battle with Kilij Arslan at Nicaea—actually Robert had not yet arrived at Nicaea—and overthrowing him and taking his horse. It also portrays Robert as the principal leader at Nicaea, and the one to whom Kilij Arslan sent the messenger Amendelis to open negotiations.
[10] _H. C. Oc._, iii, p. 761; cf. the fifteenth century _Anonymi Rhenani Historia et Gesta Ducis Gotfredi_, _ibid._, v, p. 454.
[11] _H. C. Oc._, iii, p. 622. Ralph’s whole account of the battle is almost epic in character; cf. the poems (pp. 625-629) devoted to the exploits of individual heroes, and especially the two lines on p. 627:
Rollandum dicas Oliveriumque renatos, Si comitum spectes hunc hasta, hunc ense, furentes.
[13] _Chronique de Robert de Torigni_, i, pp. 82-83; Ralph de Diceto, _Opera Historica_, ed. William Stubbs (London, 1876), i, p. 222; Roger of Wendover, _Flores Historiarum_, ed. H. O. Coxe (London, 1841-44), ii, p. 87; Matthew Paris, _Chronica Maiora_, ed. H. R. Luard (London, 1872-83), ii, p. 64; idem, _Historia Minor_, ed. Frederick Madden (London, 1866-69), i, pp. 85-86; _Flores Historiarum_, ed. H. R. Luard (London, 1890), ii, p. 29; _Le livere de reis de Brittanie e le livere de reis de Engletere_, ed. John Glover (London, 1865), p. 166; Robert of Gloucester, _Metrical Chronicle_, ed. W. A. Wright (London, 1887), ii, pp. 585-586; Thomas Walsingham, _Y podigma Neustriae_, ed. H. T. Riley (London, 1876), p. 79.
[16] _Chronique de Robert de Torigni_, i, p. 84; Ralph de Diceto, i, p. 223; Matthew Paris, _Chronica Maiora_, ii, p. 74; _Flores Historiarum_, ii, p. 29; Robert of Gloucester, ii, p. 591; Walsingham, _Y podigma_, p. 80. See also the references given in nn. 17 and 18 _infra_.
[17] Roger of Wendover, ii, p. 103; Matthew Paris, _Historia Minor_, i, p. 102.