FOOTNOTES

1. He was born at Vitry sur Seine, became Curé of Argenteuil, near Paris; Canon of Oignies, in the diocese of Namur, preached the crusade against the Albigenses, and accompanied the Crusaders to Palestine; having been made Bishop of Acre, he was present in 1219 at the siege and at the capture of Damietta and returned to Europe in 1225; created Cardinal-bishop of Frascati in 1229, he died in 1244, leaving a number of writings. For his life, see the preface of his Historiæ, edition of Douai, 1597.

2. This letter may be found in (Bongars) Gesta Dei per Francio, pp. 1146-1149.

3. Jacobi de Vitriaco Libri duo quorum prior Orientalis, alter Occidentalis Historiæ nomine inscribitur studio Fr. Moschi Duaci ex officina Balthazaris Belleri, 1597, 16mo, 480 pp. Chapter xxxii. fills pages 349-353, and is entitled De ordine et prædicatione fratrum Minorum. See above, p. 229.

4. This appears from the passage: Videmus primus ordinis fundatorem magestrum cui tanquam summo Priori suo omnes alii obediunt. Loc. cit., p. 352.

5. It is inserted in the treatise of Sigonius on the bishops of Bologna: Caroli Sigonii de episcopis Bononiensibus libri quinque cum notis L. C. Rabbii, a work which occupies cols. 353-590 of t. iii. of his Opera omnia, Milan, 1732-1737, 6 vols., fo. We find our fragment in col. 432.

6. This passage will be found above, p. 241.

7. Guillelmi Tyrensis arch. Continuala belli sacri historia in Martène: Amplissima Collectio, t. v. pp. 584-572. The piece concerning Francis is cols. 689-690.

8. Chronicon Montis Sereni (at present Petersberg, near Halle), edited by Ehrenfeuchter in the Mon. Germ. hist. Script., t. 23, pp. 130-226, 229.

9. Burchardi et Cuonradi Urspergensium chronicon ed., A. Otto Abel and L. Weiland, apud Mon. Germ, hist., t. 23, pp. 333-383. The monastery of Ursperg was half-way between Ulm and Augsburg. Vide p. 376.

10. Matthæi Parisiensis monachie Albanensis, Historia major, edition Watts, London, 1640. The Brothers Minor are first mentioned in the year 1207, p. 222, then 1227, pp. 339-342.

11. See the article, Minores, in the table of contents of the Mon. Germ. hist. Script., t. xxviii.

12. Franz von Assisi, p. 168 ff.

13. See above, p. 97, his story of the audience with Innocent III.

14. For example, Chronica Albrici trium fontium in Pertz: Script., t. 23, ad ann. 1207, 1226, 1228. Vide Fragment of the chron. of Philippe Mousket (Cross before 1245). Recueil des historiens, t. xxii., p. 71, lines 30347-30360. The number of annalists in this century is appalling, and there is not one in ten who has omitted to note the foundation of the Minor Brothers.

15. For example, Vincent de Beauvais (Cross 1264) gives in his Speculum historiale, lib. 29, cap. 97-99, lib. 30, cap. 99-111, nearly every story given by the Bollandists under the title of Secunda legenda in their Commentarium prævium.

16. Legenda aurea, Graesse, Breslau, 1890, pp. 662-674.

17. A good reproduction of it will be found in the Miscellanea francescana, t. ii., pp. 33-37, accompanied by a learned dissertation by M. Faloci Pulignani.