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Reynaud and his brothers, with Mawgis their cousin, came in their / riding to Poictiers, where it was told them that John, King of / Gascony was hard pressed by the Saracens. Reynaud said to his / comrades, "Let us go to the help of the King. " To this they / consented, and so coming to the city of Bordeaux were joyfully / received by the King and his courtiers.
Not many days after, the King of the Saracens came to Bordeaux, and / Reynaud and his comrades went forth from the city to attack him. / Then followed a great battle, and the Saracens fled, whom Reynaud / pursued so hotly that all his friends counted him to have been slain. / Great, therefore, was their joy when Reynaud came back, not only safe / and sound, but bringing with him the King of the Saracens, as / prisoner, for he had taken him in single combat. Thereupon, King / John, holding that he could not honour too greatly so valiant a / knight, yielded to him a fair hill whereon was a castle, and gave him / also his sister in marriage. This castle Reynaud made very strong / with towers and the like, and called it Montalban; and for a while / the brothers had peace.