ABSTRACT
William passed into the tournament heartland and found an event in mid-January 1183 some kilometres east of Paris. There is some evidence that William was more disconsolate than his pragmatic and down-to-earth search for a substitute income might indicate. In January 1183, not long after William took himself off into exile, the sons of Henry II fell out among themselves, Henry and Geoffrey taking on Richard. William returned to his young master, preceded by letters of safe conduct and recommendation from King Philip and others at the French court to Henry II, all taking the Marshal's part in the late differences. William and Baldwin were received honourably and perhaps with relief, for the campaign had been hard going. The historian William of Newburgh accused 'certain people' of fostering this nascent cult either to justify the son's campaign against his father or to claim that God had accepted his final penitence.
