[875] The popular version of this story is, that Eleonora, the wife of the prince, who had accompanied him to Palestine, sucked the poison from the wound, at the risk of her own life. Camden sanctions this account. [876] Hemingford; Langtoft. [877] Villani; Vet. Script.; Bernard, old French. [878] Martenne; Villani. [879] Martenne, Vet. Script.; Villani; Sanutus. [880] Raynouard. [881] For the history of the Templars, see Raynouard and Du Puy, Vertot, William of Nangis, Historia Templariorum, &c. Almost all the modern writers are more or less in favour of the Templars, while every contemporary authority condemns them. As to Mills's assertion, that they were loyal and virtuous, it is perfectly untenable. All the historians of the Holy Land, many of whom died while the Templars were at the height of their power, declare that they were a corrupt, proud, perfidious body. Mills himself shows that such was the opinion entertained of them by the Saracens; and all the general letters of the popes accuse them of manifold vices and depravities. [882] Vertot. [883] Will. of Nangis. [884] Vertot. [885] He was afterward pardoned when the sultaun's wrath had abated but Soliman would never see him more. [886] Vertot. [887] Watson; Vertot; Nic. Villagagnon. [888] Vertot; Com. de Bel. Mel. [889] Vertot; Com. de Bel. Mel. Nic. Villag.; Watson. [890] Watson; Vertot; Com. [891] Vertot. [892] Jouvencel; Ordre de Chevalerie; Fabliaux de le Grand d'Aussi; Chevalier de la Tour; Notes on St. Palaye. [893] Froissart, chap. 290. [894] Ibid. chap. 329. [895] Alain Chartier Le Grand. [896] La Colombiere Theatre. End of Project Gutenberg's The History of Chivalry, by G. P. R. James