Transcribed from the 1909 Macmillan and Co. edition by DavidPrice,
THE
PRINCE AND THE PAGE
A STORY OFTHE LAST CRUSADE
BY THEAUTHOR OF
“THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,”
ETC.
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY ADRIANSTOKES
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1909
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
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FirstEdition printed 1865(Pott 8vo). Reprinted 1873, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1881
(Globe8vo), March andNovember 1883, 1886. Second Edition 1891 (Crown8vo)
Reprinted 1893, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1906,1909.
Shilling Edition, 1908.
PREFACE
In these days of exactness even achild’s historical romance must point to what the Frenchterm its pièces justficatives. We own thatours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de Montfortdrawn by his wife’s own household books, as quoted by Mrs.Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of EdwardI. in Carte’s History, and more recently in the Greatest ofthe Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of thestory. The household accounts show that Earl Simon andEleanor of England had five sons. Henry fell with hisfather at Evesham. Simon and Guy deeply injured his causeby their violence, and after holding out Kenilworth against thePrince, retired to the Continent, where they sacrilegiouslymurdered Henry, son of the King of the Romans—a crime somuch abhorred in Italy that Dante represents himself as meetingthem in torments in the Inferno, not however before Guyhad become the founder of the family of the Counts of Monforte inthe Maremma. Richard, the fourth son, appears in thehousehold books as possessing dogs, an