Note 579 — Chapter III · THE LEGATION OF PANDULF 1219–1221

The notices of little Henry during his father’s lifetime are unluckily very few. We know that about August, 1215, he and his mother were sent for safety to the royal castle of Corfe (Hist. Ducs, p. 152), and that at the time of his father’s death he was in the castle of Devizes, under the care of a valiant man-at-arms, Ralf of Saint-Samson (see above, pp. 2, 3). These temporary removals of the boy from Peter’s custody were, however, certainly not due to any withdrawal of John’s confidence from Peter, whose name follows that of Gualo in the list of executors of the will made by John on his death-bed.