Note 1207 — Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF HENRY II. 1183–1189.

Gesta Hen. (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 36. R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 55. This last writer says that Richard took seventeen castles, but he must be counting in those which had been taken in the spring. The date of this second expedition comes from Rigord (Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v.), p. 27, who places it between Pentecost and midsummer. The new editors of Vic and Vaissète, Hist. du Languedoc, vol. vii. p. 22, charge Rigord with false chronology here, and insist upon following (as they suppose) that of Will. Armor., who tells us that Richard began his campaign against Toulouse “modico elapso tempore” after the Mid-Lenten council at Paris (Gesta Phil. Aug., Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v. p. 74). If, however, they had read the English authorities more carefully, they would have seen that there were really two campaigns, and that while Will. Armor. speaks of the first, Rigord is speaking of the second.