he sent for his confirmation to Avignon to the court of
Pope Clement the count of Savoy, his kinsman, and M. Guy of Namurs,
brother of the count of Flanders, his cousin, which were honourably
received by the Pope and by the cardinals; and in the month of April,
1308, the said Henry was confirmed as Emperor by the Pope, and it was
ordained that the Cardinal dal Fiesco and the Cardinal da Prato should
be legates in Italy, and should bear him company when he should have
crossed the mountains, commanding in the Church's name that he should
be obeyed by all. Immediately when his ambassadors had returned with
the Pope's confirmation, he went to Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany with
all the barons and prelates of Germany, and there were there the duke
of Brabant, and the count of Flanders, and the count of Hainault, and
more barons of France; and at Aix, by the archbishop of Cologne, he
was with honour and without any opposition crowned with the first
crown, on the day of the Epiphany, 1308, as king of the Romans.

Sec. 103.--_How the Venetians took the city of Ferrara and then lost it
again._ Sec. 104.--_How the master of the Hospital took the island of
Rhodes._ Sec. 105.--_How the king of Aragon prepared an expedition
against Sardinia._ Sec. 106.--_How the Guelfs were expelled from Prato,
and then were reinstated._ Sec. 107.--_How the Tarlati returned to Arezzo
and expelled the Guelfs therefrom._ Sec. 108.--_How King Charles II.
died._ Sec. 109.--_Of the signs that appeared in the air._ Sec.
110.--_How the Florentines renewed war with Arezzo._ Sec. 111.--_How the
Lucchese would have destroyed Pistoia, and the Florentines opposed them._

Sec. 112.--_How Robert was crowned king over the kingdom of Sicily and
Apulia._

[Sidenote: 1309 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Par. viii. 76-84.]

In the month of June of the year 1309, Duke Robert, now King Charles'
eldest son, went by sea from Naples to Provence, to the court, with a
great fleet of galleys, and a great company, and was crowned king of
Sicily and of Apulia by Pope Clement, on S. Mary's Day in September of
the said year, and was entirely acquitted of the loan which the Church
had made to his father and grandfather for the war in Sicily, which is
said to have been more than 300,000 ounces of gold. In the said year
and month the Guelfs were driven out of Amelia by the forces of the
Colonnesi.

Sec. 113.--_How they of Ancona were discomfited by Count Frederick._ Sec.
114.--_How M. Ub