THE SULTANA CHEGGER-EDDOUR AND THE EMIR SAIF-EDDIN
Book XV.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

BOOK XV
THE EIGHTH CRUSADE
A. D. 1255 TO 1270

Illus -73 Tissue

THE SULTANA CHEGGER-EDDOUR AND THE EMIR SAIF-EDDIN

Chegger-Eddour could not pardon Aibek for having asked the hand of a daughter of the prince of Mossoul, and the faithless husband was assassinated by slaves. The sultana, after having gratified her woman's vengeance, called in the ambition of the emirs and the crimes of policy to her aid. She sent for the emir Saif-Eddin, to ask his advice, and to offer him her hand and empire. Upon being introduced into the palace, Saif-Eddin found the sultana seated, with the bleeding body of her husband at her feet ; at this spectacle, the emir was seized with horror, and the calmness which the sultana displayed, together with the sight of the bloody throne, upon which she proposed to him to take his seat with her, added to his fright ; Chegger-Eddour summoned two other emirs, who could not endure her presence, but fled away, terrified at what they saw and heard. This scene passed during the night, at break of day, the news of it was spread throughout Cairo, and the indignation of the people and the army was general and active ; the mother of Aibek amply revenged the death of her son. Chegger-Eddour, in her turn, perished at the hands of slaves, and her body, which was cast naked into the castle ditch, might teach all the ambitious who were contending for the empire, that all revolutions, likewise, sometimes have their justice. - Book XV

Note; pages 166, 167, 168 pages 169 to . . . The moguls, under command of Oulagon, lays seige .. The Christians who had applauded the moguls victories . . . became subject to the mamelukes vengence under Bibars leadership.

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