CHAPTER Y.

In Raymond’s place immediately came in 1160Sir Otteger Balben, 1 a French gentleman of Dau-phinee, celebrated in the order for haying engagedPalestine to decide in favour of the orthodox Popein the great schism, as well as to declare itself anhereditary, and not elective monarchy; so Alex-ander the Third’s legate was invited into Jerusa-lem, and Baldwin III. dying, from an ignorantSyrian doctor, 2 or poisoned as some aver, 3 andleaving no children, his brother Almericussucceeded, and was anointed, and crownedon the eighteenth of February, in 1162, 4 and theceremony scarcely over, the Grand Master, Sir

1 Yertot: ii. 171.—Bosio, ut supra.

2 Cod. Dipl. Geros., i. 363.—Michaud: Hist., ii. 223.

3 Vertot: ii. 171.

4 Cod Dipl. Geros.,i. 365.—Bosio: par. 1, lib. ii. anno 1162.

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