[672] Benedict of Peterborough.
[673] Rigord; Benedict of Peterborough.
[674] Rigord.
[675] Vinesauf.
[676] Ben. Abb. Peter.; R. Hovedon.
[677] Rigord.
[678] Rigordus states positively that Berengaria had arrived before the treaty was signed between Philip and Richard. Mills says, that Richard remained in Sicily after Philip’s departure, to wait for Berengaria; but Rigord lived at the time, and was one of the most diligent inquirers who have left us records of that age. The Branche des royaux Lignages makes Richard say to the King of France,
“Sire vostre suer espousai
De laquele atan le don hui;
Mes onc nul jour ne la connui
Et j’ai puis prise Bérangarre
Qui fille est au roy de Navarre.”—1226.
William the Breton, also, who was afterward chaplain to Philip Augustus, represents Richard as saying,
“Et jam juncta thoro est mihi Berengaria, regis
Filia Navarræ.”