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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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Alban . 1 But if one Judas did not dishonour thetwelve, neither should two the Templars. But thepair of culprits furnished some cloak of reason tocite, when the storm began to rise against thewhole body of those unfortunate gentlemen . 2

Whether the following events happened exactlybefore or after Almeric’s death is not quite certain;at least Michaud and Vertot disagree on the subject . 3The eldest of Baldwin IV.’s sisters married the Mar-quis of Monferrat, called Longsword, and he dyingin a few months, left Sybilla, a young widow, withan infant son, heir to the throne, and she, havingseen Guy Lusignan, a Frank adventurer, at Court,he debauched her, and her brother had to makethem marry . 4

Isabella, Almeric’s other daughter, was given inwedlock to the famous Thoron’s son, or nephew, aboy only ten, and she eight. And, after herdivorce from him, she had several husbands, amongwhom was not, as is pretended, Renaud de Cha-tillon , 5 widower of the Princess of Antioch, whomay have married old Thoron’s widow, and young

1 Hoveden.—Bibl. Crois., ii. 775.

2 Vertot: ii. 214, 218.—Bosio: par. 1, lib. iv., anno 1172.

2 Id. : 223.

4 Michaud : Hist., ii. 253.

5 Id. : 249.