In the said year 1306, the Veronese, Mantuans, and Brescians made a league together, and declared a great war against the Marquis Azzo of Este, which was lord of Ferrara, because they feared that he was desirous to be lord over Lombardy, forasmuch as he had taken to wife a daughter of King Charles; and they overran his places and took from him some of his strongholds. But the year after, when he had gathered his forces, with the aid of the Piedmontese and of King Charles, he made a great expedition against them, and overran their places and did them much hurt. But a little time after the said marquis fell sick, and died in great pain and misery; and he had been the gayest and most redoubted and powerful tyrant in Lombardy, and he left no son of lawful wedlock, and his lands and lordship became a cause of great strife between his brothers and nephews, and one of his bastard sons, which was named Francis, whom the Venetians greatly favoured because he was born in Venice; and much strife and war followed therefrom with hurt to the Venetians, as hereafter in due time we shall make mention. [Sidenote: 1306 A.D.] [Sidenote: 1307 A.D.] [Sidenote: Purg. vii. 132.] Sec. 89.--_How M. Napoleone Orsini, the legate, came to Arezzo; and of the expedition which the Florentines made against Gargosa._ Sec. 90.--_How the good King Edward of England died._ Sec. 91.--_How the king of France went to Poitiers to Pope Clement, to cause the memory of Pope Boniface to be condemned._ Sec. 92.--_How and after what fashion was destroyed the Order and mansion of the Temple of Jerusalem by the machinations of the king of France._ [Sidenote: 1307 A.D.] [Sidenote: Purg. xx. 91-93.] [Sidenote: 1310 A.D.]