ADHEMAR (ADEMAR, AIMAR, AELARZ) DE MONTEIL (d. 1098),
one of the principal personages of the first crusade, was bishop
of Puy en Velay from before 1087. At the council of Clermont in
1095 he showed great zeal for the crusade, and having been named
apostolic legate by the pope, he accompanied Raymond IV., count
of Toulouse, to the east. He negotiated with Alexis Comnenus
at Constantinople, re-established at Nicaea some discipline
among the crusaders, caused the siege of Antioch to be raised
and died in that city of the plague on the 1st of August 1098.
See the article by C. Kohler in La Grande
Encyclopedie; Bibliographie du Velay (1902), 640-650.
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