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 | | The count of Flanders was obliged to sign the treaty of Boves in July 1185, which gave the king, in addition to the expectation of Artois, his wife's dower, sixty-five castles in Vermandois and the town of Amiens. |
 | | John renounced his suzerainty over Brittany and the guardianship of his nephew, Arthur; he engaged not to aid the count of Flanders or Otto IV. |
 | | But in 1202 the war was renewed, John having seized some castles from the family of Lusignari, whose head was the count of La Marche, and taken for his queen a prospective bride, Isabelle Taillefer, from Hugh, son of Hugh IX., count of La Marche. |
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