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Godfrey De Bouillon (c.1058-1100). One of the leaders of the First Crusade and the first Latin ruler of Jerusalem. Legend has it that Godfrey killed a bear single-handed, and rent asunder the body of a Moslem emir with a blow of his sword.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 674. (The four leaders of the First Crusade, Godfrey, Raymond, Bœmund and Tancred, drawn by A. de Neuville.)
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