Note 238 — BOOK XII. (continued 3)

Quant l’apostelle oi ces nouvelles, si n’en fu mie lies, parce que l’empereur était excommunié, et qu’il li etoit avis qu’il avait fait mauvaise paix, parce que les Sarrasins tenaient le temple et per ce ne volut-il soffrir un le sçut fait par lui, ne que sainte église en fit fête, ains recommanda par toute Chrestianeté qu’on excommuniat l’empereur come renvoyé et mescréant.—Cont. of William of Tyre. (When the apostle heard these news, he was not at all pleased, because the emperor was excommunicated, and he thought he had made a bad peace, as the Saracens were to retain the temple. Therefore he was not willing it should be thought he consented to the peace, or that the Church should offer up thanks for it; and he ordered that the emperor should be excommunicated throughout Christendom, as a castaway and an infidel.)