GOD, Friends of. See Friends of God.
GOD, Peace of. See Pax Dei.
Goddard, Josiah, a Baptist minister, missionary, and translator of the Scriptures, was born at Wendell, Mass., in 1813; graduated at Brown University in 1835, and at Newton Theological Seminary in 1838. He was appointed a missionary to the Chinese in Siam, China being not yet open to the residence of foreign- ers. There he labored with success as a preacher, translated the Gospel of John, and prepared tracts and an Anglo-Chinese vocabulary. Being taken with bleeding from the lungs, he removed to Ningpo, one of the treaty ports then recently assigned for foreign trade and residence. Here he continued, with con- scious and growing weakness, holding upon life by a peculiarl}- uncertain tenure, j'et with courage and pa- tience, to labor on for six j-ears — preaching, journej'- ing, preparing and circulating tracts, and carrj'ing to completion his version of the New Testament. This is a valuable contribution to the difficult work of Bib- lical translation in the Chinese language. He was an excellent scholar, and made high attainments in the study of that language. He proved liimsclf a sensible and cautious, but brave and earnest worker. The dis- ease against which lie had borne up so long proved flital in 1854. (L. E. S.)
Godeau, Antoine, a Roman Catholic bishop, was born at Dreux in 1605. He was destined hj his par- ents for public life, but, having been disappointed in love, entered the ministry. He was one of the orna- ments of the Hotel Rambouillet at Paris, w^here his talent for verse gained him distinction. Richelieu made him bishop of Grasse in 1G36. After his conse- cration he retired to his diocese, and devoted himself to its duties. He subsequenth^ quitted the see of Grasse for that of Vence, where he died April 21, 1672. He wrote Morale Chretienne (1705, 3 vols. 12mo) : — Paraphrases des Epitres de St. Paul et des Epitres Ca- noniques (1640, 1641, 4to) : — Psaumes de David, tra- duils en vers lYangais : — Nouveau Testament traduit et erpliq. (1668, 2 vols. 8vo), besides other smaller works, chiefly biographical. The most important of his pro- ductions is the I/istoire de V Eglise, from the commence- ment of tlie world to the end of the 9th centurv (Paris, 1653-1678, 5 vols. fol.). He left MSS. continuing the work. The first volume exposed the author to a charge of heresj', and the threats of a powerful eccle- siastic induced him to write the rest of Ids work with less impartiality.— Dupin. Eccks. Writers, 17th cent, ;
Hook, Eccles. Biog. vol. v ; Niceron, Memoires, xviii-. XX ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Genir. xx, 885.
Godeschalcus. See Gottsciialk.
Godfathers ; Godmothers. See Sponsors.
Godfrey of Bouillon, duke of Lorraine, was born at Biizj-, in Brabant, probably about A.D. 1060. He served with high distinction in the armies of the emperor Henry IV. When, near the end of tiie 11th century, the first crusade was set on foot, he entered into the movement, and was the first in rank among the Crusaders. " He not only signalized himself by valor among the valorous, and by enthusiasm among the en- thusiastic, but he showed also disinterestedness, probi- ty, skill, and prudence, which were of a higher and rarer order. He maintained the most complete disci- fdine among his division of the Christian army, which he brought safelj* to the appointed muster-place be- neath the walls of Constantinople in the winter of 1096. By his sagacity and firmness he prevented hostilities breaking out between the host of the Crusaders and the Greek emperor, Alexius Comnenus, and in the spring of 1097 Godfrey led the Prankish nations into Asia Mi- nor, to the siege of the capital of the Turkish sultan of Nice. This citj' was captured after a siege, in which the personal valor of Godfrey, as well as his general- ship, was frequently displayed. He was tall, well- proportioned, and of such remarkable strength and dexterit}' in the use of his weapons that he is said, in more than one encounter, to have cloven his foe by a single sword-stroke from skull to centre. After Nice was captured, the Crusaders marched forward and de- feated a Turkish army in the great battle of Dorylffium. They reached Antioch, in Sj'ria, late in the winter of 1097. The city was captured after an obstinate resist- ance, and tlio weakened army of the victors was in turn besieged in its walls by an innumerable host of the Mohammedans. After enduring much suffering and loss, Godfrej' led the Crusaders in a sudden sortie upon their enemies, which was completeh' victorious. The enthusiasm caused among the Christian army by the supposed discoverj' of the relic of the holy lance was one great cause of this success. It was not till 1099 that the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, and tlieir num- bers were then reduced hy the sword and by disease to only 1500 horse and 20,000 foot fit for service. The Moliammedan garrison was far more numerous, and the city was formidablv strong. But the zeal of the Crusaders was indomitable" (Rich, s. v.), and the Holj' City was carried bj' storm July 15, 1099. Godfrej' was proclaimed first Latin king of Jerusalem, but he rejected the title, and assumed the style of ' ' Defender and Baron of the Holy Sepulchre." He defeated the sultan of Egypt at Ascalon, August 12, 1099. God- frej' compiled and promulgated a code named Les As- sises de .fervsalem, which, as finally revised towards the close of the 14th centurj"^ for the use of the Latin kingdom of Cyprus, is printed in old law French in Beaumanoir's Coutimes de Beaiwaisais (Bourges and Paris, 1690). He died in 1100. See Creasy, in Rich's Cyclop, of Biography ; English Cyclopeedi-a; Michaud, Histoire des Croisades.