against his assailants till Henry himself came over to patch up another settlement in the spring of 1182.[1032] [1028] R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 439. Rigord (Duchesne, _Hist. Franc. Scriptt._, vol. v.), p. 5, tells the same story more briefly, and it is amusing to see how differently he colours it. [1029] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 246, 247. R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 6. [1030] September 18, 1180; _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 250; R. Diceto as above, p. 7; Will. Armor., _Gesta Phil. Aug._ (Duchesne, _Hist. Franc. Scriptt._, vol. v.), p. 72. Rigord (_ib._), p. 7, makes a confusion about the year. [1031] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 277. Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 260. [1032] _Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 284–286. R. Diceto as above, pp. 9–11. Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 297, 300. Gir. Cambr., _De Instr. Princ._, dist. ii. cc. 15, 16 (Angl. Christ. Soc., pp. 42–47). Rob. Torigni, a. 1182. Other needs, however, than those of the French Crown were once more calling for Henry’s presence in Gaul. The condition of Aquitaine only grew more unsatisfactory, in spite or in consequence of Richard’s efforts to improve it. Henry’s bargain with Adalbert of La Marche had failed to secure him the possession of that county; the brother-lords of Lusignan claimed it as next-of-kin to Adalbert as soon as the king’s back was turned, and made good their claim by forcible occupation.[1033] The Limousin was again threatening revolt; the town-walls of Limoges were razed by Richard’s order at midsummer 1181.[1034] Almost at the same moment the death of Count Vulgrin of Angoulême opened a fresh source of strife; his two brothers laid claim to his inheritance against his only daughter, whom Richard of course took into wardship as a feudal heiress, and on Richard’s refusal to admit their claims they made common cause with Ademar of Limoges.[1035] The mischief however did not end here. Richard’s unbending resolve to bridle Aquitaine had gradually stirred up against him the bitter hatred of the whole people--a hatred for which his stern rule is quite sufficient to account, without admitting the blacker charges brought against him by the reckless tongues of the south.[1036] The voice of Bertrand de Born had once more given the signal for a general rising. A _sirvente_ which went forth from Hautefort in 1181 rang like a trumpet-call in the ears of the lords of Ventadour and Comborn and Périgord and Dax, of Angoulême and Pons and Taillebourg.[1037] But even this was not all. Years before, it seems, there had flashed through the troubadour’s quick brain a possibility of stirring up strife in higher quarters than among the petty princes of his native land. Now he distinctly saw the possibility of finding for the Aquitanian resistance to Richard a rallying-point and a leader in Richard’s own brother.