Riccar Loghercio was Lord of the Isle, and was a great gentleman of
Provence, and a man of great courage and prowess.
And when the Saracens came to attack Spain, he was in that battle
called the Spagnata, the most perilous battle that there has been since
that of the Greeks and the Trojans. Then were the Saracens in great
number, with many kinds of engines, and Riccar Loghercio was the leader
of the first battalion. And as the horses could not be put in the van
for fear of the engines, he bade his followers turn the hindquarters of
their horses towards the enemy; and they backed so long that they found
themselves in the enemy’s midst.
And so the battle proceeded and they continued to slay right and left,
so that they utterly destroyed the enemy.
And when, on another occasion, the Count of Toulouse was fighting
against the Count of Provence, Riccar Loghercio descended from his
steed, and mounted on a mule, and the Count said: What does this mean,
Riccar? Messer, I wish to show that I am good neither for pursuit nor
for flight.
Herein he showed his great liberality, which was greater in him than in
any other knight. [66]