and everlasting contempt upon himself and upon France; so he will not go by my counsel. But if he must needs either go or die, let him do what best pleases him and [Sidenote: _July 23_] his folk.” Next day Philip repeated his demand for half [Sidenote: _July 26_] of Cyprus; which Richard again refused. Three days later Conrad of Montferrat, on Philip’s advice, came and threw himself at Richard’s feet and “asked his pardon” (seemingly for the insult to which the king had been subjected at Tyre); [Sidenote: _July 27_] Richard granted it.[703] On the following day the plea of Conrad against Guy was tried in the presence of both the western kings. Conrad claimed the kingdom in right of his so-called wife, Isabel; Guy, as having been made king, and done nothing to forfeit his crown. Both put themselves on the judgement of the two western sovereigns and the prelates and nobles of the host. Judgement was given on the morrow (July 28) in the palace of Richard. Guy was to be king for life; if he died before Conrad and Isabel they were to succeed him,[704] and according to one account the crown was to remain with their heirs;[705] according to another account, if Guy, Conrad, and Isabel should all die while Richard was in Holy Land, Richard—evidently as being head of the house of which the Angevin kings of Jerusalem were a younger branch—was to dispose of the realm at his will.[706] Meanwhile, the royal revenues were to be divided equally between Conrad and Guy.[707] Geoffrey de Lusignan and Conrad were both confirmed in the fiefs which they actually held.[708] On the morrow Philip made over all that he had acquired in Acre to Conrad, and again asked Richard’s leave to go home.[709] Richard is said to have been so dismayed that he offered Philip a half share of everything he had gathered together for the Crusade—gold, silver, provisions, arms, horses, ships—if he would abandon his project; but it was in vain.[710] All that the English king could do was to insist on the French one taking a solemn oath not to invade the Angevin lands or work any mischief against their owner while the latter was on pilgrimage, nor without forty days’ notice after his return. The oath was sworn, and the duke of Burgundy, the count of Champagne, and some other French nobles stood surety for its fulfilment.[711] Each of the kings then detached from his troops a hundred knights and five hundred men-at-arms and sent them to Bohemond of Antioch for the defence of his city and principality; Richard furnished his share of this contingent with money enough to pay its expenses up to the following Easter, and added a gift of five “large ships” laden with horses, arms and food. Finally, the French king’s share of the prisoners was separated from Richard’s[712] and placed, together with the French troops who were to remain in Syria, under the command of the duke of Burgundy.[713] On July 31 or August 1 Philip and Conrad went, in two galleys lent to them by Richard, to Tyre.[714] There