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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 77132, member: 708&quot;]I haven&#039;t checked this fact out yet but i&#039;ve no reason to believe it&#039;s inaccurate. There was a dispute in 1152 over one of Louis VII&#039;s vassal lords, Geoffrey had taken him prisoner (took him many years to do so) and was refusing to release him. In August 1152 there was a a big debate between the two sides in Paris. Louis was disgusted with how the baron was being treat. Geoffrey said the lord had deserved it for being a ruthless lawless man that had gone round causing misery upon the land.</p><p><br /></p><p>Present at this meeting was Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux and things got a bit tense and heated. Geoffrey promptly defied the abbot and thus Bernard said God would strike Geoffrey down within a month. In September Geoffrey fell sick and died.</p><p><br /></p><p>Geoff might not have been a match for the abbot but Eleanor of Aquitane certainly was.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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