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Ut comes Richardus ducatum Normannia acceperit.
A.D. 1189. sta- Richard on
First acts of
his father's
EFUNCTO itaque rege Hen-
rico, Richardus filius ejus
tim injecit manus in Stepha- death.
num 'de Thurnham, senescal-
lum Andegaviæ, et mittens eum
in custodia exegit ab eo castella
et thesauros patris sui, quos
habebat. Deinde omnes servientes patris sui,
quos fideles noverat, honorifice secum retinuit,
et unicuique servitium, quod patri suo longo
transacto tempore fecerat, secundum cujusque
meritum recompensavit. Johannem vero fra-
trem suum ad se venientem honorifice susce-
pit. Tunc pergens in Normanniam Rothoma-
gum venit, atque decimo tertio kalendas Au-
gusti, præsentibus episcopis, comitibus, baroni-
NOTES AND VARIOUS READINGS.
De Thurnham.] More properly til he should pay 30,000 pounds 'de Turonis;' Stephen of Tours, of Anjovin money; Richard of or de Marzai, seneschal of An- Devizes, p. 6.
jou. He was confined at Win-wards left by the king as one of chester, where he was loaded with the governors of Cyprus.
irons of thirty pounds' weight, un
bus ac militibus, per ministerium archiepiscopi
de altari beatæ virginis Mariæ ducatus Nor-
manniæ gladium suscepit; receptaque fidelitate
tam cleri quam populi, Johanni fratri suo om-
nes terras, quas pater suus ei dederat in An-
glia, terram videlicet quatuor millium marca-
rum, cumque comitatu toto Moretonii, dapsili-
ter confirmavit. Concessit etiam 'Gaufrido fra-
tri suo, ecclesiæ Lincolniensis quondam electo,
archiepiscopatum Eboracensem; qui continuo,
missis clericis suis cum literis ducis, accepit
archiepiscopatum in manu sua, expulsis custo-
dibus regis et Huberti Walteri, ejusdem eccle-
siæ decani et a quibusdam canonicis ecclesiæ
illius electi. Dux igitur tertio sui ducatus die,
habuit colloquium cum rege Francorum inter
Calvum-montem et Trie, in quo colloquio rex
Francorum postulavit Gisortium castellum et to-
tam provinciam adjacentem; sed, quoniam dux
accepturus erat Alesiam sororem regis in con-
jugem, sustinuit ad tempus, promissis a duce
quatuor millibus marcis, præter supradictam cm.
pecuniam, quam promiserat pater suus.
Ut rex Richardus matrem suam de longo carcere
Interea mater ejus, regina Alienora, quæ per leased from annos sedecim a toro patris separata sub arcta carceris custodia tenebatur, statuendi in regno quæ vellet a filio potestatem accepit, datumque est regni principibus in mandatis, ut
1 Gaufrido fratri suo.] Geof-in 1213. His life by Giraldus
frey Plantagenet: he was conse- Cambrensis is in the Angl. Sacr.
crated at Tours in August 1191; ii. p. 375.
imprisoned by the chancellor, the
bishop of Ely, on his landing at
Dover, 19th September; released
on the 26th of the same month;
retired abroad in 1208, and died
2 Interea.] The following chapter is taken almost verbatim from Diceto, col. 646. Compare Hoveden, p. 654, and Benedict. Abb. p. 549.
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