Frivolity and Reform in the Church: The Irish Experience, 1066–1166
David N. Dumville
In mid November 1064, what was perhaps the most important pre-Crusade pilgrimage to Jerusalem left Bavaria under leadership of Günther, bishop Bamberg. The number pilgrims, all unarmed, is stated as some seven thousand in least incredible source text. leading ecclesiastics came from over northern half Empire, Utrecht Regensburg. A substantial contingent hailed province Mainz, led by Archbishop Siegfried. Only two are said have returned following year. Our earliest chronicle kept at Mainz Gaelic inclusus , Moelbrigte / Marianus Scottus (d. 1082/3), who had lived since 1069 and certainly writing his 1073/4.
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