RRR:
51
Other:
John of Würzburg, pp. 124-5
YEAR:
1100
INSTITUTION RECIPIENT:
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem
text:
*After late July. [8] Jerusalem. The Hospital of St John, between the conventual churh and the chapel of St John the Baptist. Tomb and epitaph of Wiggerus [Wicherus Alemannus]. It celebrates the seizure of Jerusalem by the Franci on 15 July 1099.
Transaction Type :
INSTITUTION NUMBER:
322
Sources:
John of Würzburg, pp. 124-5
Comments:
[8] The date of the last known reference to Wicherus. John of Würzburg (pp. 124-5) claimed that the original epitaph had been obliterated and the name of Wicherus had been erased in a denigration of the German contribution to the First Crusade.
