Although enthusiasm was very popular, however, Urban wanted to ensure that there would be an army of knights, drawn from the French aristocracy. In addition to Adhemar and Raymond and other leaders, he recruited in 1096 including Bohemond I of Antioch, an southern Italian ally of the pope on the reform side; Bohemond Tancred’s nephew – Prince Galilee; Godfrey of Bouillon, who had been an ally against the reform of the Holy Roman Emperor; brother of Baldwin I of Jerusalem; Hugh I-Count of Vermandois, brother of Philip I wise of France; Robert Curthose, William II’s brother in England; and Stephen II, Count of Blois with Robert II, Earl of Flanders. Expeditionary armies represented northern and southern France, Germany, and southern Italy and were therefore divided into four separate armies that were not always cooperated, even though they were organized Hold together by their ultimate goal.
