From that time on the Prince changed.

He became reckless; he fell in with evil company; he grew to be a shameless ruffian, a man who brought his women into his wife's presence, and struck her while they were there.

And in his passions he called her terrible names.

He made a vow that when children came he would make them things of scorn.

In her great trouble, the Princess came to my inn, where the Princess Hildegarde was born.