Arnout IV, Count of Aarschot

Arnout, like his grandfather, was the commander of a fleet that delivered Crusaders to fight in the war against the Muslim intruders.

He is also identified as a nephew of Godfrey of Bouillon with distant ties to the ruling house of Jerusalem.

The attacking fleet included as many as 200 ships, and the corresponding rout of the Moors has been described by Runiciman as a “glorious massacre of the infidel.” Many of the Crusaders continued on to the Holy Land.

University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1958 Hasselt, A. H. C. van, Les Belges aux Croisade, Jamar, 1846 (available on Google Books) Phillips, Jonathan, The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007 (available on Google Books) The History of the Country of Aarschot This Belgian biographical article is a stub.