A.D. 1226-40.^] INSUBBECTION DURINO THE REGENCY. 369 fldence, ae rcepecting himself personally, for the' great charge he had just undertaken. He had the fullest trust in God from his infancy to his death ; for at the end of his latter days, he called upon God and his saints, and especially on St James and St Genevieve as his intercessors. In return he was protected by God, in regard to his soul, from his earliest years to his death, and also in respect to the good doctrine he received from his mother, who taught him to believe in God, and to love and fear him in his youth ; and he has, ever since that time, lived a virtuous and holy life. His mother caused him to be attended by religious persons, who preached to him the word of God on Sundays and feast-days. Many times has he related that his mother should frequently say that she would rather he was in his grave, than that he should commit a mortal sin. It was needful,that God should help him in his youth; for hie mother was from Spain, a foreign country, and remained in France without any of her own family, relations, or friends. The barons of France thus seeing him an infant, and his mother a foreigner, without any support but from God, made the count of Boulogne, uncle to the king just dead, their leader, and considered him as their lord and master. It happened therefore, after the coronation of this good king, that by way of beginning the rebellion, some of these great barons of France required of the queen-dowager, that she would give them lands appertaining to the crown of France; and because she wonld not consent, urging, as an excuse, that it was not for her to dismember the kingdom of France contrary to the will of her son, who was now crowned king, these barons assembled at CorbeiL The holy king told me that when he and his mother were at Montlehery, they dared not go to Paris until the inhabitants came with a large force of men-at-arms to escort them thither ; and he added, that the whole road from Montlehery to Paris was filled on all sides with men-at-arms, who besought the Lord that he would grant the king long life and prosperity, and that. he would defend him against all his enemies. And this God did in different places, and at different times, as you shall hear in the course of this history. While the barons were assembled at Corbeil they practised among themselves, and resolved, with one accord, to raise up 2B