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Rh swore, that his royal head should never again know repose, until he had bitterly revenged upon the Christian world, the base and cruel assassination of his consort and his subjects, by bloodshed, war, and desolation of its dominions. During the next three years, he prepared the whole of the wealth which he possessed, to bear the heavy expences he was about to incur, and at the close of that period he had already an army of five hundred thousand men, all prepared to act against the states of Christendom.

Tradition, however, does not inform us of the result of these grand preparations, to avenge the cruel assassination of his Empress, and his tributary princes and great lords.