The general line of policy which Henry had hitherto pursued he took up almost at the identical point at which it had been interrupted by the rebellion; but instead of seeking for John a provision on the Continent, he determined to find him a wife and an endowment in England, and, when he should be old enough, to make him king of Ireland. With this idea he arranged for him, in 1176, a marriage with Hawisia, the daughter of William, Earl of Gloucester, his cousin; and the next year, in a great assembly at Oxford, he divided the still unconquered provinces of Ireland into great fiefs, the receivers of which took the oath of fealty, not only to himself, but to John as their future king. The Pope also was canvassed as to the erection of Ireland into a kingdom and the coronation of John. The same year Johanna, the king’s youngest daughter, was married with very great pomp to the young king William the Good, as he is called, of Sicily, a prince who had an unbounded admiration for his father-in-law, and would have settled the reversion of his kingdoms upon him if Henry had accepted the offer. Eleanor, the second daughter, was already married to Alfonso, King of Castile, who in 1177 referred to the judgment of Henry a great lawsuit between himself and his kinsman the King of Navarre. This arbitration not only illustrates the estimation in which Henry after his great victory was held on the Continent, but shows us also how he deliberated with his councillors. He held a very great court of bishops and superior clergy, of barons and other tenants-in-chief, on the occasion; the arguments of the parties were laid before them, and, in conformity with their advice asked and given, the judgment was delivered. [Sidenote: Visits to England. ] [Sidenote: Intrigues of the younger Henry. ]