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| | DANDOLO, DOGE OF VENICE, PREACHING THE CRUSADE |
 | | As he was not willing that the people of Venice should be unconnected with the expedition of the French Crusaders, Dandolo proposed to the deputies to arm, at the expense of the republic, fifty galleys, and demanded for his country half the conquests that might be made in the East. |
 | | Jean de Nesle, chatelain of Bruges, and Thierri, son of Philip, count of Flanders, had promised Baldwin to bring him, at Venice, Marguerite, his wife, and a chosen band of Flemish warriors ; they did not keep their appointment, for having embarked upon the ocean, they directed their course to palestine. |
 | | Renaud de Dampierre, to whom Thibault, count of Champagne, had left all his treasures to be employed in the voyage to the Holy Land, had embarked with a great number of Champenois knights at the port of Bari. |
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