 | John Dowling - Papacy - 1871 - 962 pages
...in their pontifical habits, giving themselves up to the joy of seeing the carnage begin, sang I eni Creator. The knights mounted the breach ; resistance...be deprived of their promised joys. " Very soon," says their own monkish historian, " they dragged out of the castle Aimery, lord of Montreal, and other... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Christian biography - 1878 - 1146 pages
...the only care of Simon de Montfort was to prevent the crusaders from falling upon the inhabitants, to beseech them rather to make prisoners, that the...be deprived of their promised joys. " Very soon," says their own monkish historian, ''they dragged out of the castle Aimery, the lord of Montreal, and... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Dauphiné (France) - 1866 - 532 pages
...Montfort, beholding his too ardent soldiers already busied in the work of indiscriminate massacre, besought them rather to make prisoners, that the priests of...living God might not be deprived of their promised joys.t "Very soon" — we here quote from the narrative of the monk of Vaux Cernai, himself an eyewitness... | |
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Creator. The knights mounted the breach ; resistance was impossible ; and the only care of Simon de Montfort was to prevent the crusaders from instantly falling upon the inhabitants, and to beseech them rather to make prisoners, that the priests of the... 
