http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1stcrusade2.htmlits great to read stephen count of blois letters
i cant find his other letters online though
their great
this baffoon fucked a lot of things up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%2C_Count_of_BloisHe was minor count
who was pressured by his wife (the daughter of the norman duke william the conqueror) to go on the 1st crusade
he writes a ton of rather goofy letters back throughout
the one above is the most famious where he makes the claim
You may know for certain, my beloved, that of gold, silver and many other kind of riches I now have twice as much your love had assigned to me when I left you. For all our princes with the common consent of the whole army, against my own wishes, have made me up to the present time the leader, chief and director of their whole expedition.
in fact after writing that he decides to hightail it back home while the crusaders siege Antioch
the left over Crusaders take the city and are surrounded by Turks
but no help comes from Byzantium cause Stephen told the Emperor of Byzantium that all the crusaders were dead
anyways his wife isnt too happy with cowardness and pressure him to join another crusader, which resulted in his death
