[1078] R. Coggeshall, 58. Ralf says Richard was imprisoned “primo _Treviris_, deinde Warmatiae.” _Treviris_ here seems to mean Triffels, as there is no other indication that Richard was ever at Treves; we shall see that he was at Worms later. Ralf is perhaps the best authority as to the character of Richard’s imprisonment, as he probably heard about it from Anselm the chaplain, who may very likely have been, for a time at least, one of the attendants imprisoned with their sovereign. William of Newburgh (lib. iv. c. 37, lib. v. c. 31) is less to be trusted on the subject. Two German chroniclers say that Richard was kept “sub honorabili custodia” (_Ann. Aquicinct._, _Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, xviii. 456), “in libera clausus custodia” (_Andr. Marchian._, _ib._ 557); but the chief German historian of the time, Otto of S. Blaise, says “Henricus [regem] Wormatiam asportari vinctum ferroque onustum praecepit” (Pertz, xx. 324). [1079] R. Howden, iii. 197, a letter which shows that Savaric was at the Imperial court before February 28. [1080] _Récits d’un ménéstrel de Reims_, 41-4. [1081] R. Howden, iii. 198. [1082] _Ib._, iii. 194. [1083] _Gesta_, 230, 236. [1084] _Ib._, 236. The actual “treaty of Messina” is not extant; all we know about it is from Philip’s charter, dated March 1190 (_i. e._ before March 25, 1191, the French year beginning on Lady Day), proclaiming certain conditions on which he and Richard had made “a firm peace.” This charter, in its existing form, contains no mention of either Eu or Aumale, nor of any conditions about the restitution of Aloysia or of her dower-lands. No original copy of it is known; it is printed in _Fœdera_, I. i. 54 from a fragment of an English Treasury Roll dating from the second half of the thirteenth century. Powicke, _Loss of Normandy_, 126, 127. [1085] _Gesta_, 236, 237. [1086] R. Howden, iii. 204. [1087] _Ib._, iii. 205. [1088] “Imperator vero iratum animum ac ferocem erga regem diutius conservans nullatenus eum in praesentia sua convocare vel alloqui voluit.” R. Coggeshall, 58. [1089] R. Coggeshall, 58. [1090] French version in Leroux de Lincy, _Recueil de Chansons Historiques_, i. 56-9, and Sismondi, _Literature of S. Europe_, trans. Roscoe, i. 152 _et seq._; Provençal version in Raynouard, _Choix de Poésies des Troubadours_, iv. 183 _et seq._ [1091] _I. e._ Philip of France. [1092] “Mes compaignons cui j’amoie e cui j’aim, Ces dou Cahiul” (“Chacu,” Sismondi) “e ces dou Porcherain” (“Percherain,” Sismondi). Leroux de Lincy translates “Ceux de Cahors et ceux du Perche.” Feeling doubtful about the identification, I have tried to turn the difficulty by using a vague phrase and omitting the names altogether. [1093] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 33. [1094] Gerv. Cant., i. 517. [1095] He landed in England on April 20; _ib._, 516. [1096] “Honeste circa ipsum Imperatorem moram facimus.” [1097] Letter of Richard, in R. Howden, iii. 209, 210. [1098] R. Howden, iii. 206. [1099] Rigord, 123.