Philip, after some mind-searching, complies, and the battle recommences. Cardinal Pandulph arrives from Rome and threatens King Philip with excommunication if he allies himself with John, who is considered a heretic because of his opposition to the Church in England. The Bastard, angry at the way events have turned out, reflects on the madness of it all.Īrthur’s mother Constance angrily rejects the new alliance. The parties agree, and they prepare for the wedding. The Bastard suggests that the two sides unite to attack Angiers, but Hubert forestalls this by proposing a marriage between John’s niece, Blanche, and Lewis the Dauphin. Hubert of Angiers refuses to open his gates to either side until one is victor, but the matter is not resolved when both sides claim victory after a battle. The two sides parley, and then prepare to fight. The French king and his ally Austria are meeting to besiege Angiers when they receive news of John’s arrival. Philip gives up his share of his inheritance in return for service to John, who knights him. It emerges that Philip is the bastard son of King Richard. John then intervenes in a dispute between Robert and Philip Faulconbridge over their inheritance. King John refuses the demands of Chatillon, an ambassador from King Philip of France, to yield the English crown to young Arthur, Duke of Bretagne.
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