But Boniface of Savoy, who had succeeded St Edmund in the archbishopric of Canterbury, besought him to return.

It may be that as the monk sat beneath their shade with his bible on his knee, like good St. Boniface in the Fulda forest, he found that his ancestors were right.

In 1194 Henry VI. made an expedition to Sicily to secure the claims of his wife, Constance, to that kingdom: the Marquis Boniface as a vassal of the imperial house followed the Emperor and Raimbaut accompanied his contingent.

Boniface at once held a synod, quashed the election, and recommended his chancellor Richard as Bishop, to which the chapter agreed.

Pope Clement's red hot feet are to thrust down Pope Boniface into a gulf still hotter.