[Footnote 123: Sanut very sensibly descants on the mischiefs
of female succession, in a land hostibus circumdata, ubi
cuncta virilia et virtuosa esse deberent. Yet, at the
summons, and with the approbation, of her feudal lord, a
noble damsel was obliged to choose a husband and champion,
(Assises de Jerusalem, c. 242, &c.) See in M. De Guignes
(tom. i. p. 441 - 471) the accurate and useful tables of
these dynasties, which are chiefly drawn from the Lignages
d'Outremer.]