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A2 – Berthe de Joux -local and medieval history
Berthe de Joux
In the year 1170, Amauri III de Joux, (leave)_________for a crusade.
His wife, Berthe de Joux and their son, Henri de Joux remain_____ in the Joux castle.
Berthe wait_____ for her husband for a long time.
One evening, the knight wounds, the young Amey de Montfaucon, (come)_________ back to the castle.
Berthe de Joux (think)__________ her husband had died.
She (find)_________ comfort in the presence of Amey de Montfaucon,a handsome young man, who (become)____________ Berthe’s best friend.
But one day, Amauri return_ to the castle.
He (meet) _________ the two lovers and jump_ and kill____Amey de Montfaucon with his sword.
He also want____ Berthe to be in a prison and to look at him from the prison –dungeon of the castle.
So he ask____ people to have him hanging from a fir-tree.
As for Berthe, she ______ locked up in the dungeon.
She (be) _______ condemned to look at the corpse of her friend from the small window of the dungeon…
When Amauri III di___, his son, Henri de Joux, (become)__________lord.
He (be)______kind and gentle in manners, and as a good son he decid____ to release his mother, who (leave) ____________for the Abbaye de Montbenoit for the remaining days of her life.
