volume one

472 uiSTOET or the ceusades.
The English soon got embroiled with the subjects of Tancred,
and the banners of England were seen floating over the
capital itself. By this act of violence and authority Hichard
gave great umbrage to Philip, whose vassal he was. The king
gave orders that Eichard's standards should be removed;
and the impetuous Coeur de Lion was forced to comply,
though trembUng with rage. This submission, although it
was accompanied with menaces, seemed to appease Philip,
and put an end to the quarrel ; but from that time Eichard
became friendly with Tancred, Avho endeavoured to create
suspicions of the loyalty of the king of France, and to secure
peace to himself, sowed dissension among the Crusaders.
The two kinjrs bv turns accused each other of breach of
faith and perfidy, and the Erench and EngUsh took part m
the hatred of their monarchs. Among these divisions,
Phihp pressed Eichard to espouse the princess Alice, who
had been promised to him in marriage; but' the face of circumstances
had changed, and the king of England refused
with contempt a sister of the king of Erance, whom he had
himself earnestly sought, and for whom he had made war
against his own father.
Eleanor of Guienne, who had only ceased to be queen of
the Erench to become their implacable enemy, had for a long
time endeavoured to dissuade Eichard from this marriage.
In order to complete her work, and create an eternal di^ision
betvN'een the two kings, she brought with her into Sicily,
Eerengaria, the -daughter of Don Sancho of Xavarre, with
the view of marrying her to the king of England. The report
of her arrival augmented the suspicions of Phihp, and
was a fresh source of complaints on his part, ^"ar was
upon the point of breaking out, but some wise and pious
men succeeded in soothing these angrj' spirits ; the two kings
formed a new aUiance boimd bv new oaths, and discord was
for a moment quelled. But a friendship which required to
be sworn to so often, and a peace which every day demanded
a fresh treatv, were verv little to be relied on.
Eichard, who had just been making war upon Christians,
all at once became a prey to repentance and penitence ; he
assembled the bishops that had accompanied him in a chapel,
presented himself before them in his shirt, confessed his
sins, and listened to their reproofs with the docihtj of the