Isaac Angelus Succeeded Andronicus I. As Emperor Of
Constantinople, In 1185, And Was Dethroned In 1195.
Philip II.,
surnamed Augustus, from his having been born in the month of August,
was crowned at Rheims, in 1179, and died at Mantes, in 1223.
William
II., king of Sicily, surnamed the Good, succeeded in 1166 to his
father, William the Bad, and died in 1189. Bela III., king of
Hungary, succeeded to the throne in 1174, and died in 1196. Guy de
Lusignan was crowned king of Jerusalem in 1186, and in the following
year his city was taken by the victorious Saladin.
{12} New Radnor.
{13} Rhys ap Gruffydd was grandson to Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of
South Wales, who, in 1090, was slain in an engagement with the
Normans. He was a prince of great talent, but great versatility of
character, and made a conspicuous figure in Welsh history. He died
in 1196, and was buried in the cathedral of St. David's; where his
effigy, as well as that of his son Rhys Gryg, still remain in a good
state of preservation.
{14} Peter de Leia, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Wenlock,
in Shropshire, was the successful rival of Giraldus for the
bishopric of Saint David's, vacant by the death of David Fitzgerald,
the uncle of our author; but he did not obtain his promotion without
considerable opposition from the canons, who submitted to the
absolute sequestration of their property before they consented to
his election, being desirous that the nephew should have succeeded
his uncle.
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