Before ending the story we may briefly recapitulate the chief events of these years, outside the Becket struggle. In the year 1165, that succeeding the archbishop’s flight from Northampton, Henry paid a short visit to Normandy, and received a proposal from Frederick I. for a couple of marriages, a close league of alliance, and a joint action against the Pope, who was supposed to be abetting Becket. The only result of this was the marriage of Henry’s eldest daughter, Matilda, with Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, at this moment Frederick’s most intimate friend and kinsman, later on his enemy and victim. Neither Henry nor England could be persuaded to accept the anti-Pope, but the temporizing action of the king’s agents in Germany gave Becket an opportunity of involving all alike in a charge of heresy and apostacy. [Sidenote: Third Welsh war, 1165. ] [Sidenote: Assize of Clarendon, 1166. ] After his return to England, later in the year, Henry made his third Welsh expedition, which had no more permanent effect than the former ones, as an attempt either to subdue the country or to secure the peace of the borders. It was carried out with an amount of cruelty which shows Henry’s character to have already deteriorated. After his return he held, early in 1166, another council at Clarendon, also marked by an important act of legislation, the Assize of Clarendon, by which the criminal law was reformed, and the grand jury system established or reformed in every shire. [Sidenote: Long visit to France. ] [Sidenote: Coronation of the young Henry, 1170. ]