Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various
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Ibid. p. 333: "He (Richard) was removed from the dungeon _in the Tyrol_ to the emperor's residence at Haguenau."--_Note_ "109. See _Richard's Letter to his Mother_. Hoveden, 726." The fortress, here represented to be in the _Tyrol_, is about 220 miles distant ("as the crow flies") from the nearest point in that district, and is the Castle of Trifels, which still crowns the highest of three rocky eminences (Treyfels = _Three Rocks_), which rise from the mountain range of the Vosges, on the southern side of the town of Annweiler. In proceeding from Landau to Zweibrücken (Deux-Ponts), the traveller may see it on his left. The keep is still in good preservation; and it was on account of the natural strength of its position that the imperial crown-jewels were formerly preserved in it. I am unable to refer at present to the MS. of Oxenedes (Cotton, Nero, D 2), which appears to give the erroneous reading of _Tirualli_ for _Triualli_ or _Trivalli_; but Mr. Turner might have avoided the mistake by comparing that MS. with the printed text of Hoveden, in which Richard is represented as dating his letter "de Castello de Triuellis, in quo detinebamur." _II._--Wright's _S. Patrick's Purgatory_ (Lond. 1844. 8vo.), p. 135.: "On the patent rolls in the Tower of London, under the year 1358, we have an instance of testimonials given by the king (Edward III.) on the same day, to two distinguished foreigners, one _a noble Hungarian_, the other a Lombard, |
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