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ence over her son, that his wife could only see himin secret. Most curious anecdotes go of the haughti-ness of Blanche, the weakness of St. Louis, andtimidity of Margaret. 1 In the spring of 1254, heremoved to Acre, and on the 25 th of April sailedfor Europe.

It was not till the August next after his depar-ture, that Chateauneuf was able to resume 1254the reins of government, and begins again 1255to appear in the documents, 2 of which a few 1257extracts shall be in the Appendix. 3 The last wehave of his is in April of 1257. 4 Necessarily hehad been at Mansourah, and seen the Earl ofSalisbury killed with the three hundred English,and Robert, brother to the King of France, andthis king himself, and the rest of his princes,barons, and army, made prisoners. 5 And inabout fifteen months (during which he howeverhad the comfort of the bull of Alexander IV., infavour of the order to the King of Hungary 6 ), went

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1 Michaud: Hist., iv. 317.

2 Cod. Dipl. Geros. i. Hum. cxxiii.—Appendix, lxvii.

3 Id. Id., cxxiv.— Id., lxviii., and

Cod. Dipl. Geros. i. Hum. cxxvi. and ccxx.—Appendix,lxix. and lxx.

4 Cod. Dipl. Geros. i. Hum. clxxxiii.—Appendix, lxxi.

5 Seb. Paoli: Serie, i. 342.

6 Cod. Dipl Geros. i. Bolla, xi. 276.

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