ALBERT OF AIX

flourished 1130 canon of the church of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and historian of the First Crusade; he gathered oral and written testaments of participants in the crusade and provided an important chronicle on the subject. Little is known about his life; he himself never visited the Holy Land. His work was completed around 1130 and still remains the chief authority on the First Crusade and the history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem until 1120. The sole document on the People's Crusade of 1096, led by Peter the Hermit, Albert's history is a compilation of legends and eyewitness reports.