Anselm of Ribemont

[2] After the battle, Anselm continued to support Arnulf's mother Richilde and his brother Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.

Anselm was also friend of archbishop Manasses II of Reims, benefactor of the religious communities of St. Amand and Anchin and founder of the monastery of Ribemont.

[4][5] Anselm joined the First Crusade in the company of Eustace III of Boulogne who was part of the army of Robert II of Flanders.

According to the chroniclers of the crusade, he experienced a vision before his death in the night or siesta before in which he met the recently deceased Enguerrand of St Pol who informed him that he would soon join him in Heaven.

[13] According to Hagenmeyer, the letters were also known to the chroniclers Peter Tudebode, Robert the Monk, Raymond of Aguilers, Guibert of Nogent and the author of the Gesta Francorum Ierusalem expugnantium who used them to compose their own narratives.