The  marriage  of  Thomas  qf  Savoy  with  the  daughter  qf  Frederick,
About  this  time,  fVederick  gave  his  daughter  in  marriage
to  Thomas  of  Savoy,  brother  of  the  archbishop  of  Canter-
bury ^  he  also  gave  him  Yercelli  and  Turin,  with  the  adja-
cent provinces,  and  the  charge  of  the  barriers  prepared  to
oppose  the  pope  and  his  adherents  who  might  pass  through
those  provinces.
How  the  king  enriched  att  hie  broihere.
When  Guy  de  Lusignan,  the  king's  brother,  took  his
departure  from  England,  the  king  filled  his  saddle-bags  with
such  a  weight  of  money  that  he  was  obliged  to  increase  the
number  of  his  horses.  To  his  other  brother,  William  de
Valence,  he  gave  the  castle  of  Hertford,  with  the  honours
pertaining  thereto,  and  a  large  sum  of  money  ;  so  that  he,
the  king  himself  appeared  to  be  in  need,  and  to  plunder  or
beg  his  own  food ;  wherefore,  those  who  loved  the  king
truly  and  without  pretence,  were  in  no  slight  fear  lest  his
almsgivings  would  be  of  no  effect,  as  the  poor  heaped
curses  on  his  head,  and  his  prayers  in  the  church  would  be'
attributed  to  him,  which  God  forbid,  as  a  sin.  For  Ethel-
mar,  the  third  of  his  brothers,  he  made  provision  out  of  thie
rich  and  abundant  revalues  which  he  had,  by  imperious
entreaties,  extorted  from  each  bishop  and  abbat,  one
after  another ;  so  that  he  seemed  now  to  exceed  the  Komaus
in  audacity,  and  the  said.Ethelmar  to  surpass  the  bishops
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248  MATTHEW  PARIS.  [a.D.  1247.
Of  the  coronation  ofHacOf  king  of  Norway.
