Note 20 — Chapter XI · FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND ALEXANDER III. THE RENEWED CONFLICT OF PAPACY AND EMPIRE (1152–1190).[18]
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‘Debes enim ante oculos mentis reducere ... qualiter imperialis insigne coronae libentissime conferens, benignissimo gremio suo tuae sublimitatis apicem studuerit confovere ... sed si majora beneficia de manu nostra excellentia tua suscepisset ... non immerito gauderemus.’ Ragewinus, Gesta Frederici Imperatoris, in Pertz, Scriptores, xx. 421.