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| | Probably composed in the early 1260's, by a man known only as the Minstrel of Rheims, the Récits d'un menéstrel |
 | | Philip's other military activities were negligible, and some of his behavior in the field was questionable. |
 | | To account for Philip's early departure from the Crusade, for example, the Minstrel chooses a conspiratorial scenario, involving an attempt by Richard I, first to poison Philip, then, by suborning count Thibaut V of Blois, count Philip of Flanders, and Henry II of Champagne, to betray the French king. |
 | | The dying man's conscience moves him to confess the plot to king Philip, and to ask that he be dragged by the neck through the streets of Acre as punishment(16). |
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