Richard the Lion Heart

by Kate Norgate

[703] Gesta, 182, 183.

[704] Ib., 184; Est., ll. 5050-61; Itin., 235, 236.

[705] Gesta, l.c.

[706] Itin., 236.

[707] Gesta, l.c.; Est., ll. 5054, 5055.

[708] Gesta, l.c.; Est., ll. 5056, 5057, 5062, 5063; Itin., 235. Geoffrey only “held” his fiefs in the sense that he was legally seised of them; they were Joppa, Caesarea, and Ascalon, all in the enemy’s hands. Conrad’s were Tyre, Sidon, and Beyrout.

[709] Gesta, 184.

[710] R. Diceto, ii. 95.

[711] Est., ll. 5305-28; Itin., 238; Gesta, l.c.; in this last authority the clause about forty days’ notice after Richard’s return is omitted, and the date of the oath is given, July 29.

[712] Gesta, l.c.