Note 86 — THE MINORITY OF HENRY III CHAPTER I THE WAR WITH LOUIS 1216–1217

Hist. G. le Mar., ll. 15717–28. According to one account, Louis made over Hertford to Robert FitzWalter, to whom it had formerly belonged (Hist. Ducs, l.c.); according to another, FitzWalter claimed it, but was put off with a temporizing answer, on the advice of Louis’s French knights, who said, truly enough, that “Englishmen who had betrayed their own sovereign were not fit to be trusted with castles.” R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 5.