Capitolo 94
thirteen years older. Almost to his/her birth he was affianced to
Mahaut, Countess of Boulogne and the marriage you/he/she was celebrated in
1216. Rich and strongly connected, Hurepel naturally the thought
him--and it was--head of the royal family next to the King, and
when his/her stepbrother, Luigi VIII, dead in 1226 while only leaving a child,
after the Saint Luigi, a ten year-old boy, to succeed a lot of Hurepel
properly asked the defense of his/her childish nephew, and deeply
him heard again being excluded by Regina Blanche by what he concerned--
perhaps with justice--as his/her right. Almost all the great gentlemen and
the members of the royal family sided with him, and it entered a
civil war against Blanche, to the moment when these two porticos of
Rentals were building, among 1228 and 1230. The two greater
leaders of the conspiracy were Hurepel to that we there am expected
recognizes on the bench of this portico and Pierre Mauclerc, of
Brittany and Dreux that we have anybody alternative but to admit on the
trumeau of the other. In those days every great feudal gentleman was more
or less reported by blood to the Crown, and even if Blanche of
Castile was also a cousin as his/her queen-mother, they hated him to them as
a Spanish intruder with such hate as men felt in an age when
passions were true.
What these two men should be found here, in partnership with Blanche in
the same job, to the same duration, under the same roof it is a fantastic
idea, and students can feel a lot in this political difficulty a
stronger objection to admitting Hurepel to the portico of Regina Blanche
what a some supposed rule of custom of Church; he/she anchors the first right of
tourist ignorance is the right to see, or it tries to see them,
thirteenth century with thirteenth-century eyes. Passing from the
statues of Phillip and Mahaut, and advancing in the door of church,
almost the first figure that the visitor sees on to lift his/her eyes to
the superior windows of the cruise are another figure of Philippe
Hurepel, in glass on his/her knees, with hands hooked of forehead to a