ABSTRACT
A f t e r the feast was over, which they made at Toulouse for the King of France and for King Charles, the two Kings took counsel with the cardinal and with monsenyer Philip and monsenyer Charles, sons of the King of France, as to what to do. And it was ordained by them that King Charles and the cardinal should go to the Pope and that they should take with them the younger son of the King of France, called Charles, and that the Pope would make a grant to him of the Kingdom of Aragon and that he would place the crown of it upon his head. And so it was done. This grieved monsenyer En Philip, his brother, much for he loved the Lord King of Aragon, his uncle, more than any man in the world after his father. But monsenyer Charles at no time showed any love for the House of Aragon. And so the King of France went to Paris and King Charles and the Cardinal with monsenyer Carlot,1 whom they took with them, went
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to Rome, to the Pope. And when they were there the Pope granted him the Kingdom of Aragon and set the crown of it upon his head with a great feast and great courts that assembled there. And we might quote the saying of Catalonia, when someone says: “ Would such a place was ours.” The other answers : “ It seems to cost you little.” And that one can say of the Pope, for it seemed that the Kingdom of Aragon cost him little, as he made such a good profit out of it. And assuredly this grant was the worst ever made to the injury of many Christians.
