28/37 The empire was soon deprived of the last of her champions; and the dying monarch was ambitious to enter paradise in the habit of a Franciscan friar. [44] [Footnote 40: Rex igitur Franciae, deliberatione habita, respondit nuntiis, se daturum hominem Syriae partibus aptum; in armis probum (_preux_) in bellis securum, in agendis providum, Johannem comitem Brennensem.Sanut.Secret.Fidelium, l.iii.p.xi.c. 159.] [Footnote 41: Giannone (Istoria Civile, tom.ii.l.xvi.p. |