[514] “Septimo decimo. More correctly octavo decimo, as the emperor went before Easter in the year 1117.”—Hardy.
[515] “Paschal died in Jan. 1118.”—Hardy.
[516] “Maurice Bourdin, archbishop of Brague, was elected pope by the influence of the emperor Henry V, on the 9th of March, 1118, and took the name of Gregory VIII.”—Hardy.
[517] “Gelasius II, died at Clugny, 29th Jan. 1119.”—Hardy.
[518] A monastery near Salerno, inaccessible, except by one passage. Here were kept such as from their conduct had become either dangerous or scandalous: they were supplied with every thing necessary, according to their order, but were held in close confinement. Its name was given from the untameable disposition of its inmates. See Orderic. Vital. 870.
[519] This was a high compliment to the ancient Briton.
[520] Guibert of Nogent excuses himself from commemorating the valour of many of the crusaders, because, after their return, they had run headlong into every kind of enormity. Opera, p. 431.
[521] Robert de Arbrisil founded the monastery of Fontevrault in 1099, and died in 1117.
[522] “Bernard founded the abbey of Tyron in 1109, and died in 1116.”—Hardy.
[523] At Lewes in Sussex.