It is not very clear which King Thibault is here meant, but it is probably King Thibault IV , the crusader and poet, born 1201, died 1253. His poems have been published by Lévêque de la Ravallière, under the title of “ Les Poésies du Roi de Navarre ”; and in one of his songs (Chanson 53) he makes a clerk address him as the Bons Rois Thiebaut . Dante cites him two or three times in his Volgari Eloquio , and may have taken this expression from his song, as he does afterwards. Canto XXVIII 135, lo Re joves , the Re Giovarje , or Young King, from the songs of Bertrand de Born. ↩

A Latian, that is to say, an Italian. ↩