When presents of stallions came from Navarre he began to see what Don Sancho was about.

Any meeting of Richard and that profound schemer would have been Bertran's ruin.

So when Richard was King, he judged it time to be off.
'Now here,' says Abbot Milo, dealing with the same topics, 'I make an end of Bertran de Born, who did enough mischief in his life to give three kings wretchedness--the young King Henry, and the old King Henry, and the new King Richard.

If he was not the thorn of Anjou, whose thorn was he?
Some time afterwards he died alone and miserable, having seen (as he thought) all his plots miscarry, the object of his hatred do the better for his evil designs, and the object of his love the better without them.

He was cast off.