Note 1624 — Chapter VII · RICHARD AND ENGLAND. 1189–1194.
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“Vidimus, et præsentes fuimus, ubi regnum Palæstinæ, regnum etiam Italiæ patri vestro aut uni filiorum suorum, quem ad hoc eligeret, ab utriusque regni magnatibus et populis est oblatum.” Pet. Blois, Ep. cxiii. (Giles, vol. i. p. 350—to Geoffrey of York). Bishop Stubbs (Rog. Howden, vol. ii. pref. p. xciii.) interprets “regnum Italiæ” as representing Sicily.