• In the same year, that is to say, from the year of the Incarnation of our Lord one thousand two hundred, John, king of England, was at Worcester, in England, on Easter day, which fell on the fifth day before the ides of April, and shortly after he crossed from England into Normandy. In the meantime, queen Eleanor, the mother of John, king of England, whom he had sent to Alphonso, king of Castille, for the purpose of giving the daughter of the said king of Castille in marriage to Louis, the son of Philip, king of France, returned, having obtained the daughter of the king of Castille. When she had arrived at the city of Bordeaux, and was staying there, on account of the solemnity of Easter, Marchadès, the chief of the Brabanters, came to her, and on the second day in Easter week the said Marchadès was slain in the said city of Bordeaux, by a man-at-arms in the service of Brandin. After this, queen Eleanor, being fatigued with old age and the labour of the length of the journey, betook herself to the abbey of Fontevraud, and there remained ; while the daughter of the king of Castille, with Elias, archbishop of Bordeaux, and the others who attended her, proceeded to Normandy, and there delivered her into the charge of king John, her uncle. On the octave of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Philip, king of France, and the king of England, met to hold a coHfer^c^between Butteront, a castle belonging to the king of England, and Gaillon, a castle of the king of France, on the eleventh day before the calends of June, being the second day of the week. At this conference, the king of France restored to John, king of England, the city of Evreux, and the whole county thereof, and all the castles, cities, and lands of which he had gained possession in Normandy during the war, as also in the other territories of the king of England ,· and John, king of England, immediately did homage for the same to Philip, king of France, and forthwith bestowed the whole thereof on Louis, the son of the said king of France, as a marriage portion, with his niece, the daughter of Alphonso, king of Castille; and on the following day, that is to say, on the tenth day before the calends of July, being the third day of the week, the before-named daughter of the king of Castille was married to Louis, the son of Philip, king of France, at Purmor, in Normandy, by the before-named archbishop of Bordeaux, many bishops and other religious being present, as also many counts and barons of the kingdom of Prance. But at this time