[1212] W. Armor., Phil., lib. v. vv. 74-96; cf. Rigord, 135, who dates the latter event “brevi temporis elapso spatio” after an event which occurred in June.
[1213] R. Howden, iv. 4, 5.
[1214] Rigord, 135, 136; W. Armor., Phil., lib. v. vv. 168-242, 254-69. There is documentary evidence of Philip’s presence at Aumale in July 1196; Delisle, Catal., no. 502. Gervase of Canterbury, i. 532, has confused the chronology.
[1215] W. Armor., Phil., lib. v. v. 269.
[1216] Cf. Mag. Vita S. Hugonis, 248-51, and R. Howden, iv. 40.
[1217] Letter of Walter in R. Diceto, ii. 149, 150; cf. R. Howden, iv. 14, W. Newb., lib. v. c. 28, R. Coggeshall, 70, and Gerv. Cant., i. 544.
[1218] “Precipitans sevus alta de rupe deorsum Littore Sequanio, muros ubi postea rupis Gaillarde struxit,” W. Armor., Phil., lib. v. vv. 311-13. This dates the story 1196-7.
[1219] Such is the story as told by Philip’s poet-historiographer, W. Armor., Phil., lib. v. vv. 276-324. Roger of Howden, iv. 54, tells it in less detail under the year 1198, without specifying its occasion; according to him Philip was the originator of this “novum genus grassandi in populo,” “and thus provoked the king of England, though unwilling, to a like impious act.”
[1220] R. Howden, iv. 18, 19; cf. letters of Walter and Richard in R. Diceto, ii. 153-8.
[1221] Letter in Fœdera, I. i. 71, dated “apud Bellum Castellum de Rupe,” July 11, 1198.