When it came to marking out the areas in which the cross was to be preached, the terminology of the Curia was variable and not always very exact. As a rule, recruitment areas were determined by the groups of potential crusaders which had been singled out for a specific crusading campaign. These areas were mostly defined in political terms, whereas the Curia's usual way of thinking about European geography principally seems to have been in terms of dioceses and archdioceses, which rarely matched political boundaries. For example, when in 1240 the pope commissioned the Dominicans in the Province of Francia to remind crucesignati of their duty to leave for the east or redeem their vows, the areas of recruitment were specified as the Kingdom of France and the Archdioceses of Vienne, Besançon and the Dioceses of Toul, Verdun, Metz, Liège, and Cambrai. Similarly, when in 1262 both mendicant orders in Francia were told to preach the cross to the Holy Land their area was described as the Kingdom of France together with the Archdioceses and Dioceses of Lyons, Vienne, Besancon, Tarantaise, Embrun, Aix, Cambrai, Toul, Verdun, Liege, and Metz. Here, the aim must have been to include the French-speaking regions along the border of Germany. The borderlands between the French kingdom and the Empire were, in fact, often divided in this way. When the Dominicans of Louvain and Antwerp collected money for William of Holland's anti-Hohenstaufen crusade in 1248, they were told to do so in the whole of Germany, in the Archdiocese of Cologne and the imperial parts of the Dioceses of Cambrai and Tournai.