Note 1931 — Chapter VIII · THE LATER YEARS OF RICHARD. 1194–1199. (continued 2)

Ibid. Cf. the different account of the captive’s demeanour in Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 593. It seems impossible to make out who this man really was. R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 166, the Ann. Margam, a. 1199 (Luard, Ann. Monast., vol. i. p. 24), the anonymous continuator of Geoff. Vigeois (Labbe, Nova Biblioth., vol. ii. p. 342) and Rog. Wend. (Coxe), vol. iii. p. 135, call him Peter Basilius or Basilii. Gervase calls him John Sabraz; Rog. Howden, Bertrand de Gourdon; and Will. Armor. Philipp., l. v. (Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v. p. 156), Guy, without any surname at all. But as Géraud proves (art. “Mercadier,” in Bibl. de l’Ecole des Chartes, ser. i. vol. iii. pp. 433, 434, 442), it cannot have been Bertrand de Gourdon; for the only man who is known to have borne that name was still living in 1231, while Rog. Howden himself tells us that Richard’s pardon did not avail to save the life of his slayer. Mercadier detained the man till the king was dead, and then had him flayed and hanged; Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. iv. p. 84;—or, according to another account, he sent him to Jane, and it was she who took this horrible vengeance for her brother’s death. Ann. Winton. a. 1199 (Luard, Ann. Monast., vol. ii. p. 71).