The answer he gave his council, when dissuaded from returning to England after the escape of his son, the Duke of Anjou, whom Edward III held as a hostage. Froissart, however, gives an entirely different answer,—that he had found the king of England, the queen, and their children, so courteous and honorable, that he trusted entirely to their loyalty. According to another version, King John returned in order to see again the beautiful Countess of Salisbury. The same sentiment, in nearly similar thttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_II_of_France