Peter Tudebode ( la, Petrus Tudebodus) was a Poitevin priest who was part of the

First Crusade The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic ru ...

as part of the

army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles The army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles was one of the first to be formed after Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade. Raymond formed a Provençal army and left his County of Toulouse in October 1096, traveling over the land route. He was the ...

. He wrote an account of the crusade, ''Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere'', including an eye-witness account of the

siege of Antioch The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in succession. The first siege, by the crusaders against the city held by the Seljuk Empire, last ...

of 1097–1098. The work is included in

Patrologia Latina The ''Patrologia Latina'' (Latin for ''The Latin Patrology'') is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1841 and 1855, with indices published between ...

,Migne, J. (Jacques-Paul). (18441902)
Patrologiae cursus completus: series latina
Sive, Bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad usuque Innocentii III tempora floruerunt. Parisiis: excudebat Migne, etc.. Volume 155, pp. 758–823. The work appears in ''Recueil des historiens des croisades'' (RHC), with a translation and ''Præfatio'' by French historian Jean Besly (1572–1644). The anonymous ''

Gesta Francorum The ''Gesta Francorum'' (Deeds of the Franks), or ''Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum'' (Deeds of the Franks and the other pilgrims to Jerusalem), is a Latin chronicle of the First Crusade by an anonymous author connected with Bohemon ...

'' and Tudebode's account share similarities and there are disputes among scholars as to their relationship. Historian Jay Rubenstein suggests that both derive from a lost common source.Rubenstein, Jay (2005).
What is the Gesta Francorum, and who was Peter Tudebode?
. ''Revue Mabillon''. 16: 179–204. doi:10.1484/J.RM.2.303576. This is disputed by Marcus Bull's recent examination of a little known manuscript related to these two chronicles, ''Peregrinatio Antiochie'', which proposes that the ''Gesta'' is indeed the earliest surviving narrative from which the other two, the ''Historia'' and the ''Peregrinatio'', as well as many others, descended.Bull, Marcus (2012). The Relationship Between the Gesta Francorum and Peter Tudebode’s Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere. I
Crusades, Volume 11
(2012). By Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith.

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