y cmsgarig The chapter of Bourges, having 
be to the court, he or- 
a ch rr, a th caer 
ve rise to Aart ven 
pagne, and set 
to which the inhabitants of 
The effect of this was 
visit the Holy Land, in, order to expiate his 
To this project he was further incited say ah 
abbot of Clairvaux, who had been selected by Pope 
enthusiasm of she; 
Louis from, this enterprise. 
niences’ that, would result. from ‘it, and the 
which the king would be exposed ; but Bernard, oad 
other hand, made himself answerable for its success, and 
extolled it with an enthusiasm that passed for inspiration. 
Before his departure, however, the king had the good . 
sense to name Seiger minister to the regent, whom he 
in charge of the kingdom. 
‘Embarks in ch was the rage for.the crusade in France and Ger- 
a crusade. many, at this period, that Louis reckoned in his army 
70,000 men in complete armour, with a very great num- 
ber of light horse, besides infantry; but this force, 
though doubled by what the Emperor of Germany. brought 
along with him, was. rendered of little or no benefit to, 
the cause in which they were engaged, by its vey. num- 
bers, and if the total want of order and discipline. The 
Emperor of Germany fell into a snare. set for him by 
the Sultan of Iconium; and the same misfortune soon 
afterwards befel Louis. He met likewise, with another 
calamity still thore grievous, and ‘which gave him more 
uneasiness than the loss. of his army; for his queen 
Eleanor, whose affection and zeal led her to embrace the 
cross, and accompany him into Asia, was suspected of 
an amour with the prince of Antioch. His 
marriage and 
with her had been entered into contrary to the advice of 4 
Seiger; and, after the death of that apg es ! 
convinced of the soundness of his opinion by the 
of his wife, divorced her, and restored abi die ro- whi 
vinces of Guienne and Poitou, which he had received 
with her.in marriage. Eleanor, soon after her divorce, 
married Henry Plantagenet, Dake of Normandy, who, 
the following year, became King of England, under the 
name of Henry IL The remainder of Louis's, reign i 
oe ee ERG 
presents nothing worthy of notice. He 
relled with Henry II. of England; but 
were soon made up. in 1179, he made his.eon’Phi 
who was then 14 years old, be crowned at Rheims; 
the following yea he did of «payee, athe 
age of 
yee 1180. Philip IL, who was afterwards surnamed Augustus, . 
A.D.1 
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of Flanders, He tpetived 
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use his intreaties to these nobles to 
of the church, Haididsae 2M * “y € 
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vages ; and at length found 
the necessity of, canis sihae speuge 
Bee eecenes: t thei 
Philip next attention to the ext 
pton of the bg who, under the name of Roti 
infested France, setting at nought vil and 
clesiastical power. In one battle he destroyed 7000 | 
The gral shih id exits hilip’s, fay Quarrets b 
ther and the King of England _ st d 5 , 
couraging tiful behaviou 
wards their father. : 
gree quieted, by the death of 
for the ee i “gbasden Pht however, 
her 
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ay Eee ‘ 
found himself obliged, at eel defend 
dominions aon Expose and his own son. _ Being un- 
‘sponte 15 srneee od t0pay Si ek a compen for 
however, Poin felt h himself Fa i “hs ith of 
Fesens which took place A. D. ject of a 
hour 3 SH gain entertained. 
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after snilitary, glory. 
their religious and 
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