Note 1213 — Chapter VII · JOHN LACKLAND 1215–1216

Hist. des Ducs, p. 170. The assertion of William the Breton, Gesta P. A. c. 221, that John actually did await the attack of the French, and was driven away by their vigorous onset, certainly is, as M. Petit-Dutaillis says (Louis VIII. p. 100), an error. That error is grounded, like the sneering comments of Ralf of Coggeshall (p. 181), the Ann. Winton. (a. 1216), and some later writers, on the mistaken idea that John was on the spot when Louis first landed on the 21st.