They therefore again passed through Brabant, and so by ship to England.
Hearing that Longchamp, Bishop of Ely, one of Richard's vicegerents, was over in Normandy, and rightly deeming him the most earnest of his adherents, they at once recrossed the sea, and found the warlike prelate at Rouen.

Greatly delighted was he at hearing that Richard's hiding-place had been discovered.

He at once sent across the news to England, and ordered it to be published far and wide, and himself announced it to the barons of Normandy.

Then with a gorgeous retinue, including Cuthbert and Blondel, he started for Vienna, and arriving there demanded an interview with the emperor.
The news that it was now certain that Richard was imprisoned in a castle of the emperor had already spread through Europe, and the bishop had been received everywhere with tokens of sympathy; and so great was the feeling shown by the counts and barons of the empire that the Emperor Henry felt that he could no longer refuse to treat for the surrender of his captive.

Therefore he granted the interview which Longchamp demanded.