The young Primate, like his brother, brought with him foreign fashions strange enough to English folk.

His armed retainers pillaged the markets.

His own archiepiscopal fist felled to the ground the prior of St.Bartholomew-by-Smithfield who opposed his visitation.

London was roused by the outrage; on the king's refusal to do justice a noisy crowd of citizens surrounded the Primate's house at Lambeth with cries of vengeance, and the "handsome archbishop," as his followers styled him, was glad to escape over sea.

This brood of Provencals was followed in 1243 by the arrival of the Poitevin relatives of John's queen, Isabella of Angouleme.