Page 85 of Circle of the Moon


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Victims were burned or sliced open and left to bleed out

Surviving Jews fled to a synagogue; Godfrey burned it down

Ordered his men to hunt down and kill all survivors

According to records, no one survived

Piles of hands, feet, and heads were scattered throughout the city

Godfrey is said to have stripped to his undergarments and walked barefoot through the blood, which reached to his ankles

70,000 Muslims were killed there

Became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, though he called himself Advocate of the Holy Sepulcher or Baron of the Holy Sepulcher, not king; others of his time called him the Crusader King

He never married

Pedophile and sexual predator