[1] [2] [3] Whilest these things passed thus in these parties, the christians in the holie land dailie sent hither for aid, wherevpon the two kings of France and Eng|land tooke counsell togither,The 2. kings of England & France deter|mine to go in|to the holie land. and determined with all conuenient speed to ioine their powers, & with ships prepared for that purpose to saile into Syria. Ha|uing thus concluded, they went about to prepare themselues of necessarie prouision for so long a iour|nie.At South|hampton the 21 of August saith Ger. Dor. Now when king Richard had set in order his af|faires in Normandie and France, he came ouer in|to England, landing at Portesmouth the 13. of Au|gust. With him also came his brother Iohn, vnto whom he assigned the castels of Marlebridge, Rog. Houed. Matth. Pari [...]. Lute|gareshall, Peake, Bollesour, the honor of Walling|ford, Tikehill and Eie, with the earledoms of Mor|taigne, Dorset, Sumerset, Notingham, Derbie, Deuonshire, and Cornewall, with the earledome of Lancaster, intituling him earle of the same, whereby he was so exalted in state and degree, that he séemed in manner of a tetrarch, hauing as it were a fourth part of the realme in gouernance: but yet the king held some of the castels (in those counties and honors thus giuen to his brother) in his owne hands. More|ouer, vnto William Marshall he gaue in marriage the daughter of Richard earle of Chepstow, togither with the earledome which hir father possessed; and to Gilbert Fitz Roger the sonne of Rainfrey he gaue the daughter of William de Lancaster. After he was landed (as before ye haue heard) he hasted to Winchester, where his mother quéene Elianor with the most part of the English nobilitie had laine a good space to attend his comming, and there on the e|uen of the assumption of our ladie, the king was by them receiued with great ioy and triumph.