e said before. The
court was greatly disturbed, giving much blame therefor to King
Charles, who ought not to have suffered this if he knew thereof, and
if he did not know it he ought not to have let it go unavenged. But
the said Count Guy, being provided with a company of men-at-arms on
horse and on foot, was not content only with having done the said
murder; forasmuch as a cavalier asked him what he had done, and he
replied, "J'ai fait ma vangeance," and that cavalier said, "Comment?
Votre pere fut traine;" and immediately he returned to the church, and
took Henry by the hair, and dead as he was, he dragged him vilely
without the church; and when he had done the said sacrilege and
homicide, he departed from Viterbo, and came safe and sound into
Maremma to the lands of Count Rosso, his father-in-law. By reason of
the death of the said Henry, Edward, his brother, very wrathful and
indignant against King Charles, departed from Viterbo, and came with
his followers through Tuscany, and abode in Florence, and knighted
many citizens, giving them horses and all knightly accoutrements very
nobly, and then he came into England, and set the heart of his said
brother in a golden cup upon a pillar at the head of London Bridge
over the river Thames, to keep the English in mind of the outrage
sustained. For the which thing, Edward, after he became king, was
never friendly towards King Charles, nor to his folk. After like
manner, Philip, king of France, departed with his folk, and came and
dwelt many days in Florence; and when he was come into France, he
buried the body of the good King Louis, his father, with great honour,
and had himself crowned with great solemnity at Rheims.
[Sidenote: 1270 A.D.]
[Sidenote: 1271 A.D.]
Sec. 40.--_How the Tartars came down into Turkey, and drave thence the
Saracens._ Sec. 41.--_How King Enzo, son of the Emperor Frederick, died
in prison at Bologna._
Sec. 42.--_How Pope Gregory came with his court to Florence, and caused
peace to be made between the Guelfs and Ghibellines._
[Sidenote: 1272 A.D.]
[Sidenote: Purg. vi. 103-105; vii. 91-96; Convivio iv. 3: 37-42.]
[Sidenote: Purg. vi. 97-117.]
[Sidenote: 1273 A.D.]
In the year 1272, Gregory X., of Piacenza, having returned from his
mission over seas, was consecrated and crowned Pope, and because of
the great affection and desire which he had to succour the Holy Land,
and that a general crusade should set forth over seas, therefor
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