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no daughters." " I tell you that you have three," said the preacher ; " they 

 are Pride, Avarice, and Luxury." Whereupon, the King, addressing himself 

 to the barons, said, " I give Pride to the Templars, Avarice to the Cistercian 

 monks, and Luxury to my grand feudatories." "We need merely mention, 

 after Foulques de Neuilly, of other doctors who preached the Crusade with 

 no less success, Geoffrey of Bordeaux, Hildebert of Le Mans, Jean de 

 Bellesme, Ame'dee of Lausanne, Eudes of Chateauroux, Geboin of Troyes, 

 Jean de Nivelle, and Robert of Arbrissel. 



Fig. 398. Portrait of Gregory IX. (12271241), Ihe eloquent Defender of the RighU and 

 Privileges of the Holy See. Fresco Painting upon Gold Ground in Mosaic, in the ancient 

 Basilica of St. Paul-without-the-Walls, Rome. 



Sacred oratory, which in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries did wonders 

 in the way of raising armies, almost instantaneously, for the Crusade, had to 

 combat in those days the profane oratory of the heretics. These heretics 

 seemed to derive encouragement from the brilliant triumphs of the orators of 

 the Church. All rebellions and religious insurrections had their beginning 

 in mischievous addresses, which had but too great influence upon weak and 



