Great Britain -- History -- Richard I, 1189-1199; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Richard I, King of England, 1157-1199
Three weeks later father and son met once more, and for the last
time. From Le Mans the allies moved eastward along the borders of
Maine and the Vendômois, and thence into Touraine as far as Amboise;
castle after castle surrendering to them without resistance. Henry
had at first gone northward, but changed his course, and while they
were thus occupied he made his way back, with a very small escort,
to Chinon.[346] Negotiations were resumed; but the French king now
saw his opportunity for an unparalleled display of his sovereign
authority as lord paramount, and he resolved to be satisfied with
nothing less than a surrender of the whole continental possessions of
the Angevin house into his hands, to be restored or re-distributed at
his own pleasure.[347] On July 1 he laid siege to Tours; on July 3 he
took it by assault. Next day (July 4), at Colombières, Henry made the
required surrender.[348] This done, Philip formally made him a new
grant of the surrendered lands and received his homage for them on
new conditions. One of these conditions was for the sole benefit of
Philip; it was a fine of twenty thousand marks to be paid to him by
Henry. The others concerned Richard. One related to Aloysia; another
bound Henry to make all his barons, insular and continental, swear
fealty to his rightful heir. No baron or knight who in this war had
withdrawn from Henry’s service and joined Richard was to return to
the former within a month of Mid-Lent next, at which date the two
kings and Richard were to set out all together on the Crusade. All
Henry’s barons were to swear that if he broke his plighted word with
regard to anything in the agreement they would support Philip and
Richard against him; and it seems that Philip and Richard, while
restoring all their other conquests, were to retain either Tours, Le
Mans, and the castles of Château-du-Loir and Trou, or Gisors, Pacy,
and Nonancourt, “until all the things above determined by the king of
France should be fulfilled.”[349]
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