It is probable that the Council of Charroux already mentioned laid the germs of the Truce.

At the Council of Elne we see it fully organized.

In 1139 the Tenth General Council, the Second Lateran, gave in its eleventh Canon its official approbation to what must be considered one of the most beautiful institutions of the Middle Ages.
Under the guidance of our American author, George Henry Miles, we are led back to the days of the eleventh century.

He is an accurate and picturesque chronicler of that iron, yet chivalrous age.

If on the one hand, we see the sinister figure of Henry IV of Germany, on the other we find the austere but noble monk Hildebrand, who became Pope St.Gregory VII.