[478] Est., ll. 466-90. “Le Rogne, l’eve crestee,” l. 414.
[479] Ib., ll. 491-7.
[480] The two kings having agreed to separate their forces because they found them too numerous to travel in one body; Gesta, 112.
[481] Itin., 152.
[482] Ib., Est., ll. 499-510.
[483] Itin., l.c.
[484] We get this date from the Gesta, 112, where it is said that Richard stayed at Marseille eight days and left on August 7. The author of the Itinerarium enumerates (153) fifteen places which he says “we went through” (transivimus) from Lyons to Marseille; but he does not (as in his account of the journey from Vézelay to Lyons) specify how many days’ travelling these stages represent; and moreover, he is evidently here not describing Richard’s journey at all, for he ends “apud Marsiliam, ubi moram fecimus per tres hebdomadas; postea mare intravimus, scilicet die proxima post festum Assumptionis Beatae Mariae,” i. e., August 16; that is, he represents himself as having reached Marseille on July 26. Supposing his narrative to be authentic, he must therefore have travelled from Lyons to Marseille not with the king, but in advance of him. On the other hand, if he was an impostor and not a Crusader at all, his evidence on this point is of no account. In either case, however, it is probable that the route he gives would occupy about a fortnight; Richard may therefore have set out from Lyons on July 17 or 18.
[485] R. Howden, iii. 51.
[486] Ib., 42.
[487] Epp. Cantuar., 328.