The commons of Assisi were to repair in a certain measure the damage done to the lords, and the latter agreed, on their part, to make no further alliances without authorization of the commons.[34] Rural serfage was maintained, which proves that the revolution had been directed by the burghers, and for their own profit.
Ten years more were not, however, to elapse before the common people also would succeed in achieving liberty.

In this cause we shall again see Francis fighting on the side of the oppressed, earning the title of _Patriarch of religious democracy_ which has been accorded him by one of his compatriots.[35] The agreement being made the prisoners detained at Perugia were released, and Francis returned to Assisi.

He was twenty-two years old.
FOOTNOTES: [1] Eleven hundred and one metres above the level of the sea; the plain around Assisi has an average of two hundred, and the town of two hundred and fifty, metres above.
[2] As in the majority of Tuscan cities the dimensions of the houses were formerly fixed by law.
[3] The biographies say that he died (October 3, 1226) in his forty-fifth year.

But the terms are not precise enough to make the date 1181 improbable.

For that matter the question is of small importance.