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He did not claim to be the legitimate heir of these kings, but he either invented or proved that he was a collateral relation....

38. I am aware that many chroniclers of his life will, in all probability, give an account differing from mine, for in his time...

A new hospice was built too, called by him the Ptochotropheium,**52 and in this way a mighty stream of gold was poured out for...

Those who took part in these ceremonies with him and faked the apparitions, will know whether the story is true or false. If it...

They had caught the black plague. So great a hold had it got on them that, scarcely able to move, worn out with fever...

As the sickness increased, his weary limbs grew cold and stiff, and in this way he breathed his last. As soon as the two...

It would be cruel, and unchristian, he said, to deprive them of his protection and to leave them at the mercy of others. Then...

Next he began to inquire how he could put these ideas into effect so that he could despise and renounce the fleeting pleasures of...

When either side (to wit, Henry, King of Germany, and the Pope) had brought up their armies, and set them in battle array, directly...

To prevent the King’s becoming too insupportable by an alliance with Robert, he anticipated him in sending offers of peace to Robert, though before...