Peire d'Auvergne wrote several religious hymns after his retirement from the world; these are largely composed of reiterated articles of the Christian faith in metrical form and are as unpoetical as they are orthodox, Crusade poems and planhs upon the deaths of famous nobles or patrons are religious only in a secondary sense.

The crusade sirventes are important in this connection, and there were often eloquent exhortations to the leaders of Christianity to come to the rescue of Palestine and the Holy Sepulchre.

The last stage in the development of the crusade movement was thereby reached: originally begun to recover the Holy Sepulchre, it had been extended to other countries against the avowed enemies of Christianity.

Several crusade songs are attributed to Thibaut among some thirty poems of the kind that remain to us from the output of this school.

In a brief half-hour more, young Walter de Hundberg, with his sister by his side, was kneeling before an alert, slender, wiry figure in plain chamois leather, with a worn sunburnt face and keen blue eyes Fulk of Anjouwho had resigned his French county to lead the crusading cause in Palestine.

You unfeigned Crusading zeal evince?