officers of his own appointment[1124]--but still as his father’s representative, charged in his name with the maintenance of obedience and order.[1125] As for Eleanor, Henry had clearly never intended again to intrust her with any real authority; and in April he carried her back with him to England.[1126] [1115] _Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 311, 312. Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 309. On this quarrel cf. Rigord (Duchesne, _Hist. Franc. Scriptt._, vol. v.), pp. 12, 13, and Gir. Cambr. _De Instr. Princ._, dist. iii. c. 2 (Angl. Christ. Soc., pp. 88–90). This last version is extremely confused in its chronology. The main facts of the case are these: Philip of Flanders and Isabel his wife had no children, and they had quarrelled (_Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 99, 100). Philip’s heir-presumptive was his sister Margaret, wife of Count Baldwin of Hainaut, and after her, her son, another Baldwin. In 1180, however, Philip proposed, instead of leaving all his dominions to his sister and her son, to settle the southern half of them, comprising Vermandois and Flanders south of the river Lys, upon her daughter Elizabeth, whom he had just given in marriage to Philip of France. (_Ib._ p. 245.) He meant to leave them to her on his own death; but when his wife died, in 1182 (_ib._ p. 285), Philip Augustus laid claim to her two counties as lapsed fiefs. King and count went on quarrelling till 1186, when, as we shall see, the matter was settled by the immediate cession of Vermandois to Philip Augustus, who thereupon agreed to wait for the rest till the Flemish count’s death. [1116] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 312. Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 309. [1117] _Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 321, 322. Cf. Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 288, and R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 32. [1118] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 337. R. Diceto as above, p. 34. [1119] _Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 337, 338. Cf. Rog. Howden as above, p. 304. [1120] Rigord (Duchesne, _Hist. Franc. Scriptt._, vol. v.), p. 20. Will. Armor., _Gesta Phil. Aug._ (_ibid._), p. 73. According to the _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 346, Bela’s first suit was to Henry, for the hand of his granddaughter Matilda of Saxony; but Henry, “ut mos suus erat,” was so slow in answering that Bela, tired of waiting, transferred his proposals to Margaret. On the other hand, Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 336, 337, charges Henry with having contrived Margaret’s marriage with Bela on purpose to get her to a safe distance, whence neither she nor her husband could reclaim the dowry.