Note 1153 — Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF HENRY II. 1183–1189.
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R. Diceto as above, p. 41. Rigord (Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v.), p. 20. Will. Armor., Gesta Phil. Aug. (ibid.), p. 73. The accounts of the cause of death are very conflicting. Rigord, Will. Armor. and Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs, vol. i. 336) say he died of some malady not specified. Gir. Cambr., De Instr. Princ., dist. ii. c. 10 (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 34), makes him die “eodem quo et frater antea morbo acutissimo, sc. febrili calore.” The Gesta Hen. as above, and Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 309, attribute his death to injuries received in a tournament; but the Gesta, as we shall see, have an alternative version.