The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, vol 8 | Page 7

of the wife
of Balduine brother germane of the duke of Loraigne. Which Lady,
being long time vexed with a grieuous maladie, was in extremitie,
where at length paying the debt due to nature, she changed this
transitorie life, for life eternall; Who, in her life time, was a very
worthy and vertuous Lady, borne in England, and descended of most
noble parentage named Gutuere; Which, according to her degree, was
there most honourably enterred, to the great griefe of all the whole
armie. As reporteth William Archbishop of Tyre, lib. 3. cap. 17. hist.
belli sacri. The same author in the 10. booke and first chapter of the
same historie concerning the same English Lady, writeth further as
followeth, Baldwine hauing folowed the warres for a time, gaue his
minde to marriage, so that being in England he fell in loue with a very
honourable and noble Lady named Gutuere, whom he married and
caried with him in that first happy expedition, wherin he accompanied
his brethren, the Lords, duke Godfrey and Eustace, persons very
commendable in all vertues and of immortall memorie. But he had hard
fortune in his iourney, because his foresaid wife, being wearied with a
long sicknes finished her life with a happie end neere the citie of
Marasia, before the Christian armie came vnto Antioch, where she was
honourably buried, as we haue declared before.
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Chronicon Hierosolymitanum in lib. 3. cap. 27. maketh also mention of
this English Lady which he calleth Godwera in this maner.
Hac in regione Maresch vxor Baldewini nobilissima, quam de regno
Angliæ eduxit, diutina corporis molestia aggrauata, et duci Godefrido
commendata, vitam exhalauit, sepulta Catholicis obsequijs; cuius
nomen erat Godwera.
The same in English.
In this prouince of Maresch the most noble wife of Baldwine, which he
caried with him out of England being visited with dayly sicknesses and
infirmities of body, and commended to the custody of duke Godfrey,
departed out of this life, and was buried after the Christian maner. Her
name was Godwera.
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The voyage of Edgar the sonne of Edward which was the sonne of
Edmund surnamed Ironside, brother vnto K. Edward the confessor,
(being accompanied with valiant Robert the sonne of Godwin) vnto
Ierusalem, in the yeere of our Lord 1102. Recorded by William of
Malmesburie, lib. 3. histo. fol. 58.
[Sidenote: A.D. 1102.] Subsequenti tempore cum Roberto filio
Godwini milite audacissimo Edgaras Hierosolymam pertendit Illud fuit
tempus quo Turci Baldwinum regem apud Ramas obsederunt: qui cum
obsidionis iniuriam ferre nequiret, per medias hostium acies effugit,
solius Roberti opera liberatus præeuntis, et euaginato gladio dextra
leuaque Turcos cædentis. Sed cum successu ipso truculentior, alacritate
nimia procurreret, ensis manu excidit. Ad quem recolligendum cum se
inclinasset, omnium incursu oppressus, vinculis palmas dedit. Inde
Babyloniam (vt aiunt) ductus, cum Christum abnegare nollet, in medio
foro ad signum positus, et sagittis terebratus, martyrium consecrauit.
Edgarus amisso milite regressus, multaque beneficia ab Imperatoribus
Græcorum, et Alemannorum adeptus (quippè qui etiam eum retinere
pro generis amplitudine tentassent) omnia pronatalis soli desiderio
spreuit. Quosdam enim profectò fallit amor patriæ vt nihil eis videatur
iucundum, nisi consuetum hauserint coelum. Vndè Edgarus fatua
cupidine illusus Angliam redijt, vbi (vt superius dixi) diuerso fortunæ
ludicro rotatus, nunc remotus et tacitus, canos suos in agro consumit.
The same in English.
Afterward Edgar being sonne vnto the nephewe of Edward the

confessour, traueiled with Robert the sonne of Godwin a most valiant
knight, vnto Ierusalem. And it was at the same time when the Turkes
besieged king Baldwin at Rama: who not being able to endure the
straight siege, was by the helpe of Robert especially, going before him,
and with his drawen sword making a lane, and slaying the Turkes on
his right hande and on his left, deliuered out of that danger, and escaped
through the midst of his enemies campe. But vpon his happie successe
being more eager and fierce, as he went forward somewhat too hastily,
his sworde fell out of his hand. Which as he stouped to take vp, being
oppressed with the whole multitude, hee was there taken and bound.
From whence (as some say) being carried vnto Babylon or Alcair in
Egypt, when he would not renounce Christ, he was tyed vnto a stake in
the midst of the market place, and being shot through with arrowes,
died a martyr. Edgar hauing lost his knight returned, and being
honoured with many rewards both by the Greekish and by the
Germaine Emperour (who both of them would right gladly haue
entertained him stil for his great nobilitie) contemned all things in
respect of his natiue soile. For in very deede some are so inueagled
with the loue of their countrey, that nothing can seeme pleasant vnto
them, vnlesse they breath in