and the other; but however that may have been, when the said treaty
was concluded the said host departed from Tunis, and when they came
with their fleet to the port of Trapali in Sicily, as it pleased God,
so great a storm overtook them while the fleet was in the said port
that without any redemption the greater part perished, and one vessel
broke the other, and all the belongings of that host were lost, which
were of untold worth, and many folk perished there. And it was said by
many that this came to pass by reason of the sins of the Christians,
and because they had made a covenant with the Saracens through greed
of money when they could have overcome and conquered Tunis and the
country.

Sec. 39.--_How Gregory X. was made pope at Viterbo, and how Henry, son of
the king of England, there died._

[Sidenote: 1272 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Inf. xii. 118-120.]

[Sidenote: Purg. vii. 130-132.]

[Sidenote: Inf. xii. 120.]

When the said Christian host was come to Sicily, they abode there
sometime to recover the sick, and to be refreshed, and to repair their
fleet; and those kings and lords were held in much honour by Charles,
king of Sicily; and afterwards they departed from Sicily, and King
Charles with them, and came into the kingdom of Apulia, and by
Calabria to Viterbo, where was the papal court without a Pope, and at
Viterbo there tarried the said kings Philip of France, and Charles of
Sicily, and Edward, and Henry his brother, sons of the king of
England, to see that the cardinals, which were in disunion, should
elect a good pastor to reform the papal chair. And since they were not
able to agree upon any one of those there present, they elected Pope
Gregory X., of Piacenza, which was cardinal legate of Syria in the
Holy Land; and when he was elected, and had returned from beyond seas,
he was consecrated Pope in the year of Christ 1272. Whilst the
aforesaid lords were in Viterbo, there came to pass a scandalous and
abominable thing, under the government of King Charles; for Henry,
brother of Edward, son of King Richard of England, being in a church
at Mass, at the hour when the sacrifice of the body of Christ was
being celebrated, Guy, count of Montfort, which was vicar for King
Charles in Tuscany, having no regard for reverence towards God, nor
towards King Charles his lord, stabbed and slew with his own hand the
said Henry in revenge for Count Simon of Montfort, his father, slain,
through his own fault, by the kin