their obedience towards him. William conceiving a most violent hatred against the Pope, raised a mighty Army with a purpose to go for Rome, but being for his perverse nature hated of his Barons, many of them rebeld against him, and called the Pope into the Kingdom. The which was the occasion that William changed his purpose, and converted his fury against the Prince of Capoa which had been the Author of that conspiracy. The Pope which saw all the Kingdom in Arms, with admirable celerity made a mighty Army pass to Benevento, and with∣out any resistance took a great part of the Kingdom, by the which victory the Barons which called him, did swear unto him loyalty and homage. William un∣derstanding that Emanuel, Emperor of Constantinople, and Frederick Barbaros∣sa, the first Emperor of Germany, made expedition to aid the Pope, therefore he thought it his best way to be reconciled with the Church, sent an honourable Ambassage to the Pope, wherein much humbling himself, desired to be restored to the grace and favour of the Church, and possession of his Kingdom, and promised to restore whatsoever he wrongfully detained from the Church. The Pope willing to extinguish the War, went to Benevento, and expected William, who prostrate at the Popes feet, desired absolution, and took an Oath of Loy∣alty and homage, and first restoring whatsoever he had taken from the Church, was invested in the Kingdom the year 1156. William afterward lived alwaies in peace with the Church, but was ever much troubled and molested by his Barons, and hated of the people, and sirnamed for his evil conditions, William the wicked. He departed this life the year of our Lord 1167. and lived 47 years, and in the principal Church of Palermo, near his fathers Tomb was buried. He had by his wife Margarite the daughter of Garzia, the second King of Navar, Ruggieri, which was proclaimed King by the Sicilians. William Prince of Taranto, which succeeding in the Kingdom, was called William the good, and Henry Prince of Capoa.