not appear that they ever reached him where he lay, sick and weary, at Le Mans.[1241] Meanwhile Henry of Albano, after anathematizing Richard for his disturbance of the peace, had withdrawn to Flanders and there died.[1242] His mission was taken up with a somewhat firmer hand by another legate, John of Anagni. Reaching Le Mans at Ascension-tide 1189,[1243] John at once excommunicated all troublers of the peace except the two kings themselves, who were made to promise that they would submit their quarrels to his arbitration and that of the archbishops of Reims, Bourges, Canterbury and Rouen, and were threatened with excommunication if they should fail to redeem their promise.[1244] [1233] Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 436. [1234] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. ii. pp. 60, 61. [1235] Gerv. Cant. as above, pp. 438, 439. [1236] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 61. [1237] Gir. Cambr. _De Instr. Princ._, dist. iii. c. 13 (Angl. Christ. Soc., pp. 116, 117). [1238] Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. pp. 355, 356. [1239] He took the cross at Mainz on March 27, 1188, and started on May 10, 1189. Ansbert (Dobrowsky), pp. 18, 21. [1240] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 62. [1241] The duchess died in that very summer, seven days after her father according to R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 65, or nine days before him according to the Chron. Stederburg (Leibnitz, _Scriptt. Rer. Brunswic._, vol. i. p. 861). [1242] _Gesta Hen._ as above, pp. 51, 55, 56. Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 355. [1243] _Epp. Cant._ cccvii. (Stubbs), p. 290. [1244] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 61.