The History of Jerusalem
Reading translation from the 1866 Recueil print of Robert’s history of the Jerusalem journey, with RHC page citations, notes, and a glossary. Prefer this edition for citation of exact wording.
Open Chronicles · Volume 6 · Published
Historia Iherosolimitana
The History of Jerusalem
Robert the Monk · RHC Occidentaux III (1866), printed pp. 721–882.
Published in two editions.
The History of Jerusalem
The same history retold as continuous narrative, based on the source-faithful translation. Nothing invented, nothing softened — repetition condensed and the story built for modern reading.
About this work
Robert, a monk of a cell of Saint Remigius at Reims, wrote the Historia Iherosolimitana from the council of Clermont through the taking of Jerusalem and the close of book nine. He says an abbot named Bernard set him to put a head on a headless history and to write it more carefully.
Translated from Latin with AI assistance; edited by Paul McMurry. No existing English translation of Robert was used as a source. Kempf & Bull 2013 was not opened. The reader’s edition is adapted from the source-faithful freeze; it is not a second translation from the Latin.
Version history
Source-faithful translation: 1.0.0. Reader’s edition: 1.0.0. Corrections on the Corrections page.