Page Council of Clermont; French Nobles assume the Cross, 1095 March of the Crusaders Capture of Antioch, 1098 Jerusalem taken, 1099 - St. Bernard preaches a new Crusade; Louis assumes the Cross, - 126 - 127 - 128 - 132 - 133 - 134 His Divorce with Eleanor of Aquitaine, who espouses Henry of 135 - 137 - 138 - 139 - 140 - 143 - 144 - 145 - 146 - 147 - 148 - 149 CHAP. V. Difference between Angevin and Capetian - 151 The King's Dispute with Flanders - 153 The English and French Monarchs assume the Cross, 1188 Philip's return to France King's Divorce with Ingeburge, and Marriage with Mary of Page 160 Philip's Policy - The French Court of Peers State of Languedoc Nature of Albigensian Heresy The Waldenses St. Dominick, Founder of the Inquisition Murder of Castelnau; Crusade against the Albigenses, 1208 - 176- Battle of Muret; Defeat and Death of the King of Aragon, - 178 - 179 - 181 The French King's Son, Louis, takes the Field in England against John Is defeated near Lincoln and withdraws, 1221 - Death of Philip Augustus, 1223 - 194 CHAP. VI. Accession of Louis the Eighth 196 Amaury de Montfort resigns to the King his Claim on Toulouse 197 Henry and Louis espouse two Princesses of Provence PREFACE. It SOME five-and-twenty years ago, the Author of these present volumes wrote for Dr. Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopædia" a Compendious History of France. The space there assigned for the work did not render the careful consultation of original sources requisite. has ever since been his aim, and more or less the object of his study and thought, to write a History of France from the ample original materials which the care of the French Government and learned bodies have collected, and which so many of their able historic philosophers have elucidated. The First Volume of a History of France, thus composed, is now presented to the public. Although no original narrative or document of these times has been left unconsulted by the Author, he has still refrained from multiplying references at the bottom of each page. The materials of French history, or at least of its earlier centuries, have been formed into collections, for the most part in chronological order. Each volume is amply furnished with indexes and tables of contents. And nothing can be more easy than for the student to refer to any epoch, test any opinion, or |