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'Your lord will be King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou, Poictou, and Maine, and lord of some island in the western sea whose name I have forgotten. Does this please you, my child? 'He is a very great lord, said Berengère, 'and will be a great king. I hope to serve him faithfully. 'By Saint James, and so you shall! cried the happy Don Sancho.
Besides employing her authority with the German princes, she lent money to the queen of Navarre, and received some jewels as pledges for the loan. * Haynes, p. 471. Camden, p. 423. The admiral, constrained by the impatience of his troops, and by the difficulty of subsisting them, fought with the duke of Anjou the battle of Moncontour in Poictou, where he was wounded and defeated.
I choose to record how Richard Count of Poictou rode all through one smouldering night to see Jehane Saint-Pol a last time. It had so been named by the lady; but he rode in his hottest mood of Nay to that, yet careless of first or last so he could see her again.
In the beginning of April, sir Edward Hawke, steering with his squadron into Basque-road, on the coast of Poictou, discovered, off the isle of Aix, a French fleet at anchor, consisting of five ships of the line, with six frigates, and forty transports, having on board three thousand troops, and a large quantity of stores and provisions intended as a supply for their settlements in North America.
'Why, why, snaps the King, 'if I give it you, my solemn fools? Young Gilles stood up, a weighty youth. 'Lord Duke, he said, 'this lord is the Count of Poictou, your son. It had been a fine sight for sinful men to see the eyes of the old King strike fire at this word. His speech, they tell me, was terrible, glutted with rage.
You may stay in our lands or leave them; but if you stay you must sign our treaty of alliance. Too definite for John, all this: he asked for time, and Richard gave him till nightfall. At dusk he sent for him again. John chose to stay in Paris. Then Richard thought he would go home to Poictou.
You lie like a broker. You are a shameful liar. No man could stand this from another, however great that other; and Saint-Pol was not a coward. He looked up at his adversary, still white, but steady. 'How then? he asked him, 'how then if I lie not, Count of Poictou? And how if you know that I lie not? 'Then, said Richard, 'you use insult, which is worse.
He was master, in the right of his father, of Anjou and Touraine; in that of his mother, of Normandy and Maine; in that of his wife, of Guienne, Poictou, Xaintogne, Auvergne, Perigord, Angoumois, the Limousin.
'And I, Count of Poictou ; but King Philip held out his sceptre, he too very much a king. 'And we, Count of Poictou, he said, 'command you by your loyalty to tell us what Saint-Pol dared say of our sister Dame Alois. Although his thin boy's voice quavered, he seemed the more royal for the human weakness. Richard was greatly moved, thawed in a moment.
With these the Bishop would have stopped, but the King would have the whole. 'Nay, Hugh, he said and his teeth chattered as if it had been bitter cold 'out with the name of my beloved son. So you shall see what joyful agreement there is in my house. The Bishop read the name of Richard Count of Poictou, and the King grunted his 'Traitor from the womb, as he had often done before.
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