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, i. 286). At the same time he was engaged in a quarrel with Albert Seigneur de la Tour du Pin in Dauphiné, which was settled by the mediation of Peter de Grandson in September (ib. i. 289). During this visit, as on his last one, Peter contrived to materially increase his possessions in Vaud (, pp. 87–8), and on 20 Aug. 1251 his father-in-law made a donation of Faucigny in his favour (''Mon. Hist. Sabaud''. vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 1501).

After extending, it is said, his journey to Italy (, p. 92), Peter returned to England, and on 4 Jan. 1252 was one of the arbiters to decide the amount due to Simon de Montfort for his expenses in Gascony (, ii. 69). Peter had adopted a moderate attitude in English politics, and was now and for some years to come on friendly terms with Earl Simon, to whom his services at this juncture were of special advantage (cf., Epistolæ ap. Mon. Franciscana, pp. 123, 152; , p. 93). This did not interfere with Peter's friendship for the king. According to Matthew Paris (v. 356), in this same year (1252) he presumed on Henry's favour to oppress the abbey of Jervaux. It is probable, therefore, that the letter in which John of Brittany intervened on behalf of Jervaux (, ii. 30) belongs to this time. Peter was present in the parliament of April-May 1253, and now or previously undertook to join in Henry's intended crusade (Fœdera, i. 487, 489). In August he accompanied Henry to Gascony, where he remained, with some intervals, till October 1254 (ib. i. 501, 527–8; Rôles Gascons, i. 2083, 2566, 4131, 4224;, v. 410; , pp. 104, 106). He was employed in the negotiations with the French court in May 1254, and in those as to Sicily with the pope. In November he went to Savoy; his brother Amadeus had died in the previous year, and Peter and Philip of Savoy renewed their old claim to a further share of their father's lands; this question was settled by arbitration in February 1255 (ib. pp. 116–17;, iv. 386–7). Peter remained in Savoy till May, when Adolph of Waldeck, as vicar of the empire, invited him to become protector of Berne, Morat, and Hasle (ib. iv. 393–7). About the same time he was associated with Simon de Montfort in a commission to treat with Louis of France (, ii. 117). But on 8 June he was at Lyons, where he made a will (Mon. Hist. Sabaud. vol. iv. pt. ii. pp. 1535–6). There was some idea that he might return to Gascony, and Henry directed his son Edward to be guided by his advice (Fœdera, i. 560). But Peter went back to Savoy, where in August he entertained William de Kilkenny [q. v.] at Belley (, v. 508). Thomas of Savoy had been imprisoned by the citizens of Turin, and in 1256 Peter, with his brothers Philip and Boniface, laid siege to that city in order to rescue him (ib. v. 548, 564).

In June 1257 Peter was appointed to negotiate with France, as the colleague of Simon de Montfort and with John Mansel [q. v.], as to the Sicilian business with the pope (Fœdera, i. 627–34). But in October he was still at Chillon and St. Maurice (, p. 133;, iv. 469–71), though he probably went to Paris soon after, and in February 1258 crossed over to England (, v. 650). He was present with the king at Westminster on 8 March (ib. v. 672), and in the parliament which met in the following month. He joined with Simon de Montfort and the Earls of Norfolk and Hereford in the solemn confederation on 12 April (, p. 159), and therefore clearly supported the baronial policy which forced Henry to accept the committee of twenty-four. Though not a member of the original committee, Peter was on 8 May sent, with Simon de Montfort, to renew the truce with France (Fœdera, i. 654). At the parliament of Oxford in June he was chosen one of the council of fifteen, and also one of the twenty-four commissioners of the aid (Ann. Mon. i. 449–50). He took part in the action of the barons against the Poitevins, and joined in the letter to the pope against Aymer or Æthelmær de Valence (d. 1260) [q. v.] (Fœdera, i. 662). In August he was one of the ambassadors to treat with Scotland (ib. i. 668), and in January 1259 was one of the commissioners sent to meet Richard of Cornwall and receive his oath to abide by the provisions (, v. 732). During the summer of 1259 he was employed in the negotiations for peace with France (, ii. 138; Fœdera, i. 678–81), and in arranging the marriage of Henry's daughter Beatrix with John of Brittany. That prince laid claim to his ancestral earldom of Richmond, and Henry promised to grant his wish if Peter would agree to the surrender (ib. i. 682, 693). Eventually it was arranged that John should receive as compensation a pension of two thousand marks, and Peter retained the earldom till 1266 (, iv. 527, 533, 564, 567, 708;, ii. 210). Peter was with the king in France at the end of 1259. He had always belonged to the moderate section of the baronial party, and, as the breach between Richard de Clare and Simon de Montfort became manifest, passed over to the royal side. As a consequence, Earl Simon pro-