[578] Will. Tyr; Odon de Deuil; Gest. Ludovic VII; Nicetas. [579] Odon de Deuil. [580] Will. Tyr.; Odon de Deuil. [581] Odon de Deuil; Freysinghen; William of Tyre. [582] William of Tyre. [583] Odon de Deuil. [584] Odo of Deuil always calls Otho, Bishop of Freysinghen, brother of the Emperor Conrad. He was, however, only a half-brother; his relationship being by the mother's side. [585] Will. Tyrens lib. xvi.; Odon de Deuil. [586] Odon de Deuil; Will. Tyr. [587] Odon de Deuil. [588] Odon de Deuil. [589] William of Tyre. [590] Odon de Deuil. [591] Ibid. [592] William of Tyre; Vertot. [593] Gest. Ludovic. regis; William of Tyre; Vertot. [594] Vertot, a learned man and a diligent investigator, speaks of Eleonor in the following curious terms: "On pretend que cette princesse, peu scrupuleuse sur ses devoirs, et devenue éprise d'un jeune Turc baptisé, appellé Saladin, ne pouvait résoudre à s'en séparer, &c." These reports of course gave rise to many curious suppositions, especially when Richard Coeur de Leon, Eleonor's son by her second marriage, went to war in the Holy Land. On his return to France, Louis VII. instantly sought a plausible pretext for delivering himself from his unfaithful wife without causing the scandal of a public exposure of her conduct. A pretence of consanguinity within the forbidden degrees was soon established, and the marriage was annulled. After this Eleonor, who, in addition to beauty and wit, possessed in her own right the whole of Aquitain, speedily gave her hand to Henry II. of England, and in the end figured in the tragedy of Rosamond of Woodstock. [595] William of Tyre; Vertot. [596] Gest. regis Ludov. VII. [597] Vertot. [598] William of Tyre; Col. script. Arab.; Vertot. [599] William of Tyre; Freysinghen, reb. gest. Fred.; Gest. reg. Lud. VII. [600] Guil. Monach. in vit. Suger. Ab. Sanct. Dion.; Gest. reg. Lud. VII. [601] Guil. Monach. in vit. Sug. [602] All the writers of that day attempt to excuse St. Bernard for having preached a crusade which had so unfortunate a conclusion. The principles upon which they do so are somewhat curious. The Bishop of Freysinghen declares, that it was the vice of the crusaders which called upon their heads the wrath of Heaven: and, to reconcile this fact with the spirit of prophecy which elsewhere he attributes to the Abbot of Clairvaux, declares that prophets are not always able to prophesy.--_Freysing. de rebus gestis Fred. Imperat._ Geoffroy of Clairvaux, who was a contemporary, and wrote part of the Life of St. Bernard, would fain prove that the crusade could not be called unfortunate, since, though it did not at all help the Holy Land it served to people heaven with martyrs. [603] Existing orders of knighthood. [604] Fulcher; Raoul Glaber. [605] Robert; Fulcher; Raimond d'Agiles. [606] Raynouard, Poesies des Troubadours; Millot, Hist. des Troubadours; Le Grand d'Aussi Fabliaux. [607] Raynouard. [608] Oeuvres de Maroc. [609] Fauchet.