The hero quarrels with Charlemagne owing to the bad offices of the empress, and a great barons' war follows, in which Roland and Oliver have their famous fight, and Roland is betrothed to Oliver's sister Aude. _Hernaut de Beaulande_ tells how the hero conquers Aquitaine, marries Fregonde, and becomes the father of Aimeri de Narbonne; and _Renier de Gennes_ in like fashion the success of its eponym at Genoa, and his becoming the father of Oliver and Aude. Then we pass to the third generation (Charlemagne reigning all the time) with the above-named _Aimeri de Narbonne_. The events of this come after Roncesvalles, and it is on the return thence that, Narbonne being in Paynim hands, Aimeri, after others have refused, takes the adventure, the town, and his surname. He marries Hermengart, sister of the king of the Lombards, repulses the Saracens, who endeavour to recover Narbonne, and begets twelve children, of whom the future William of Orange is one. These _chansons_, with the exception of _Girart de Viane_, which was printed early, remained much longer in MS. than their successors, and the texts are not accessible in any such convenient _corpus_ as De Jonckbloet's though some have been edited recently. [Footnote 37: M. Jonckbloet, who takes a less wide range, begins his selection or collection of the William saga with the _Couronnement Loys_.] Three poems intervene between _Aimeri de Narbonne_ and the _Couronnement Loys_, but they do not seem to have been always kept apart. The first, the _Enfances Guillaume_, tells how when William himself had left Narbonne for Charlemagne's Court, and his father was also absent, the Saracens under Thibaut, King of Arabia, laid siege to the town, laying at the same time siege to the heart of the beautiful Saracen Princess Orable, who lives in the enchanted palace of Gloriette at Orange, itself then, as Narbonne had been, a pagan possession. William, going with his brothers to succour their mother, captures Baucent, a horse sent by the princess to Thibaut, and falls in love with her, his love being returned. She is forced to marry Thibaut, but preserves herself by witchcraft as a wife only in name. Orange does not fall into the hand of the Christians, though they succeed in relieving Narbonne. William meanwhile has returned to Court, and has been solemnly dubbed knight, his _enfances_ then technically ceasing.