dled against
him, and he was no longer his friend, but opposed him secretly in all
things, and openly made him renounce the office of Roman senator, and
of vicar of the Empire, which he held from the Church during the
imperial vacancy; and he was much against him in all his undertakings,
and for money which it was said he received from Paleologus, he
consented, and gave aid and favour to the plot and rebellion in the
island of Sicily, as hereafter we shall narrate; and he took from the
Church the castle Santangiolo, and gave it to M. Orso, his nephew.
Again the said Pope made Rudolf, king of the Romans, invest him, on
behalf of the Church, with the county of Romagna, and the city of
Bologna, by reason that he was debtor to the Church for the fulfilment
of the promise which he had made to Pope Gregory at the council of
Lyons-on-Rhone, when he confirmed his election, to wit that he would
pass into Italy, and equip the expedition over seas, as we before made
mention; which thing he had not done by reason of his other
undertakings and wars in Germany. Now this gift to the Church of the
privileges of the country of Romagna and the city of Bologna, neither
could nor ought to have been made by right; among other reasons,
because the said Rudolf had not yet attained to the imperial
benediction; but that which the clergy take, they are slow in giving
back. So soon as the said Pope held privilege over Romagna, he made
Bertoldo degli Orsini, his nephew, count thereof, in the Church's
name, and sent him into Romagna with a company of horsemen and
men-at-arms, and with him as legate Brother Latino, of Rome, cardinal
of Ostia, his nephew, his sister's son, of the family of the
Brancaleoni, of which was the chancellor of Rome by inheritance; and
this he did to take the lordship out of the hand of Guido di
Montefeltro, which held it and ruled there tyrannically; and this was
done in such wise, that in a short time almost all Romagna came under
the Church's rule, but not without war and great cost to the Church,
as hereafter we will tell in due place and time.

[Sidenote: 1277 A.D.]

Sec. 55.--_How King Rudolf of Germany defeated and slew the king of
Bohemia._

Sec. 56.--_How the Cardinal Latino, by the Pope's command, made peace
between the Guelfs and Ghibellines of Florence, and composed all the
other feuds in the city._

[Sidenote: 1278 A.D.]

In these times the Guelf magnates of Florence--having rest from their
wars with