Robert records that the pope asked western Christians, poor and rich, to come to the aid of the Greeks in the east. The speech climaxes in Urban's call for orthodoxy, reform, and submission to the Church.
Robert the Monkwho re-wrote the Gesta Francorum ca.
The anonymous author of the Gesta was himself among the soldiers capturing the wall towers, and recounts that "seeing that they were already in the towers, they began to shout Deus le volt with glad voices so indeed did we shout". The Historia belli sacriwritten later aroundalso cites the battle cry. According to this account, while the Princes' Crusade were gathered in Amalfi in the late summer ofa large number of armed crusaders bearing the sign of the cross on their right shoulders or on their backs cried in unison "Deus le volt, Deus le volt, Deus le volt". The battle cry of the First Crusade is first reported in the Gesta Francoruma chronicle written ca. The variants Deus le volt and Deus lo vultincorrect in Classical Latinare forms influenced by Romance languages. The phrase appears in another form in the Vulgate translation of 2 Samuel from the Bible : nec vult Deus perire animam "God does not want any soul to perish". It has been used as a metaphor referring to " God's will ", or as a motto by religious institutions such as the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
In modern times, the motto has different meanings depending on the context. It was first chanted during the First Crusade in as a rallying cry, most likely under the form Deus le volt or Deus lo vultas reported by the Gesta Francorum ca.
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