Note 2120 — Chapter IX · THE FALL OF THE ANGEVINS. 1199–1206.

Will. Armor. Philipp., l. vii. vv. 792–811 (Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v. p. 182; Deville, Château-Gaillard, p. 147). Cf. Gesta Phil. Aug. (Duchesne as above), p. 85. The date is from Rigord (ibid.), p. 47 (who, however, puts it under a wrong year, 1202), and Rog. Wend. (Coxe), vol. iii. p. 180. This last writer has a wholly different version of the capture, but it is not worthy of consideration. The number of prisoners is stated by Will. Armor. in the Gesta Phil. Aug. as forty knights, a hundred and twenty men-at-arms, “and many others.” (By his own account in Philipp., l. vii. v. 775, these “many” cannot have been more than twenty. See above, p. 422). Rigord speaks only of the knights, whom he reduces to thirty-six, saying that four had been slain during the siege.