midnight
They brought him the Sacrament ; his soul rejected it -- too clean food . Hugh and others about him , all in a sweat , got him down at last . They anointed him and said a few prayers , for they were in a desperate hurry when it came to the end . It was near midnight when he died , and at that hour , they terribly report , the wind sprang up and howled about the turrets of Chinon , as if all hell was out hunting for that which he had promised them . But , if the truth must be told , he had never kept his promises , and there is no reason to suppose that he kept that one either . Milo adds , So died this great , puissant , and terrible king , cursing his children , cursed in them , as they in him . All power was given over to him from his birth , save one only , power over himself .