Chap. V. from the Conquest, to the Death of§i Mary 1

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.another Trip to Normandy, this

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*gahst &oes ^ ame Tear, and embarked at Ports-r ' ' ’ l(J mouth. His Business was to meet theLegates, which the Pope had sent toexamine into the Circumstances of Bec-ket's Murder; But Affairs of greaterConsequence kept him there till thenext Y ear.

BackK,y rt ] N rhis Year Hackluyt mentions theMiia -ac 7 ' Oo-uh of John Lacy, Constable of Che-in the^ ji er > and Lord of Halt on, who went to"off Land. the Holy Land, and died there.j> If 73 * During the King’s Absence in Ire-0 land and France, Jealousy had so far

A RebeUi on g aine d the Ascendant over his QueenNented a- Eleanor, that it turned to an actual.

ffsft the Hatred and Aversion. She fomented

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mies with Terror, and obliged his Sons 1174*to a Submission, a Peace ensued, andHenry returned triumphantly to Eng-land, arriving at Port J mouth, the fixand twentieth of May, II75. 11 75'*

This Year, Henry, having concluded 1176.a Treaty of Marriage, for his Daughter -Bromptou.Joanna, with William , furnamed the

an unnatural Rebellion and Conspiracy*°ns. against him, which was abetted by the

Tmpton. immoderate Ambition of his Son Lien-

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^erv^fe^' O’’ whom he had unadvisedly caused*Wed. to be crowned King, and his two youn-kfp 0- . P er Sons, Richard and Geoffrey, whoans - were likewise drawn into it by theirMother. This formidable Conspiracy,for which Prince Henry's being crown-ed King furnished a Pretext, drew thep Ear 10ith King, his Father, into a War with theglance and Kings of France and Scotland, the Earlsand ' of Flanders, Boulogne, and Blots, anda great Number of his own Noblemen.fffff a Chi/ The Circumstances of this War wouldlatj/” ®- n g-carry me too far ; I shall, therefore,only observe, that during the Prosecu-tion of it abroad, the Apprehension ofan Invasion threatned by the Earl ofFlanders, made King Henry resolve toI j y. return to England in 1174. That he> ' took his own Queen Eleanor, his Son’sCe srP/f Suc ~ Queen, Margaret, his Son, John, theh a psfff 1 Karl of Leicejler, with his Countess, anda great Number of other Prisoners withhim, and taking Shipping, with a pow-erful Army, at Barseur, landed atSouthampton: That from this Time Suc-cess attended him ; and that having ta-ken the King of Scotland Prisoner, dri-ven his disobedient Son, the youngHenry, into France, (his whole Fleetbeing dispersed, and a great Part of itlost in a Storm) having tamed his re-1 bellious Subjects, taken another Vbyage

into France, drove the French King fromthe Siege of Roan, struck all his Ene-

Good, King of Sicily, lent her over U ‘ C

thither with a very splendid Reti- Daughternue: (/) And the Year following, m f rr F d *°in a Grand Council, he pave his vounp- e; r ;i v 0 'er Son, John, the Title (for it was m 1177.Reality no more) and had him crown- Brady,ed King of Ireland, co which End the -Q s - m Btbl.Pope sent him a Crown of Peacock’s usj’j) vijj.Feathers set in Gold : He did not, 10.however, send him over thither, till se> Sen Johnveral Years afterwards; And Brady fays bingesthis Crown was not sent till after his Ireland.Return.

This Year, Philip, Earl of Flanders, Ho]inshcoming over into England to perform Dyagecftlehis Devotions at Becket's Tomb, and LL

being appointed shortly to go to the ^ly Land.Holy War, the King gave him fiveHundred Marks, and licensed WilliamMandeville, Earl of Essex, to accompa-ny him, with other Lords, Knights, andMen of War, of sundry Nations, whichwere in his Dominions. This I presumeis the Expedition mentioned by Fur- Purchaseschase, from Matthew Paris, who fays 1 B - ir *they failed from Dartmouth, about io.-’ 4 ’ven and thirty Ships, well manned, andtouched at Lisbon, where the King ofPortugal besought their Aid against the j n Expedi-Moors in the City of Sylvia. This they tion againstgranted him, and, on the third Day of ^ Moors -the Siege of that Place, broke into theSuburbs, and forced the Moorish PrinceAlchad to yield the City, in whichwere above sixty Thousand Moors, se-ven and forty Thousand whereof werestain, and the Mahometan Temple con-secrated to the Virgin Mary.

We find nothing memorable in our U83-6.Histories from this Time to the Year Two of the1183. which was noted for the Death King’s Sons,of young King Henry, and was follow- Geoffreysed, in the Year 1186. by that of his die.

Brother Geoffrey, (m)

Henry having, in the Year 1187, 1187.

renew’dtheTruce, then subsisting, with Diceto.

E Philip Hoveden.

1 Cyervaie.

M. Paris.

Nhard. (I) Echard mentions this Princess, under the at Palermo, tho’ it was agreed on and concluded,

Year 1174- as then married to the King of Sicily, and the Princess sent over, the rear before, as we ]] r ompton.^.7 and her Sister to the King of Castile : Our Eng- tee particularly in Brompton.

R°Hnth j Kfh Daniel places this Marriage in 1177: And (w) It was abont this I ime, lays F. Daniel, that It Daniel, AsJ ad - Fohnjhead places the Marriage of the Princess the Enghjh, having now made themselves Masters de la Mil.fty m . Eleanor, with the King of Castile this Year. We of Guienne, Poictou, Bretagne, Jnjou, and Maine, Fr. Tom. II.Lra-r- tee by the Fædera, and by a Copy which is extant and being obliged, on that Account, frequently to p. 445.p. A 1 . 1, i n Brompton, that the Marriage-Treaty between transport 1 roops to Prance, began more than ever,it 11 ham and Joanna was stgned in February siyli to think of maintaining the Sovereignty of the Seas.