There is initial disagreement as to the…
July 1099 CE
There is initial disagreement as to the nature of the government to be established, and some hold that the Holy City should be ruled under ecclesiastical authority.
Raymond of Toulouse at first refuses to become king, perhaps attempting to show his piety, but probably hoping that the other nobles will insist upon his election anyway.
Godfrey, who had become the more popular of the two after Raymond's actions at the siege of Antioch, does no damage to his own piety by accepting a position as secular leader.
After a week in which they clear the corpses from Jerusalem, the bickering crusader leaders supposedly elect Godfrey on July 22nd, as Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ("advocate" or "defender" of the Holy Sepulchre) 'so that he might fight against the pagans and protect the Christians'.
The exact nature and meaning of Godfrey's title, one only used in a letter that was not written by Godfrey, is somewhat controversial.
Godfrey himself seems instead to have used the more ambiguous term princeps, or simply retained his title of dux from Lower Lorraine.
In any case, Raymond, incensed at this development, takes his army out into the countryside.
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