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morning, while looking out from a terrace on histroops tiling past, or in the portico, had a suddenapopletic stroke ; 1 however it was, he was killed.Another Henry, Duke of Lorraine and Brabant,succeeded; 2 3 but in two or three months to besuperseded by the defunct’s widow taking a newhusband—Almeric, who had followed his brotherGuy, on the throne of Cyprus, and now marriedIsabella, by the Grand Master of the Hospitallers’means, and in her right became titular King ofJerusalem, which he hastened to authenticate by adeed, dated Tyre, in August, 1198. 3 Almeric isrepresented to be a good wise man by the Moslemsthemselves; 4 5 which, and the Pope’s eulogy, is nocontradiction to the same Pope’s blame of thepatriarch, for having connived at a woman’s taking afourth husband while her first one was still alive. 6

And, what was of more consequence, a trucewas again assented to, by the Moslems, for six yearssix months and six days, permitting the Christiansa free passage to and from the Sepulchre, Jordan,

1 Bib. Crois., iii. 284.—Arnold de Lubeck : Ckron. 4,

2 Lamberti Parvi: Chron.—Bib. Crois., i. 334,

3 Cod. Dipl. Geros, Hum. clxxxix.—Appendix, liii.

4 Arab. Chron., 381.

5 Seb. Paoli: Storiche, i. 376.—Muratori.—Bib. Crois.,

ii. 497.