Note 1183 — Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF HENRY II. 1183–1189.
Reading edition
According to the pathetic story in Itin. Reg. Ric. (Stubbs), p. 15, it was rather the king who fell with the Cross, in a desperate effort to save it. See also Gesta Hen. (Stubbs), vol. ii. pp. 13, 22, 37; R. Coggeshall (Stevenson), p. 21; Expugn. Terræ Sanctæ (ibid.), pp. 209–227.