I asked him why he had made no effort to save himself either by swimming or in another way. He replied to me that there had been no need and no point in trying to save himself, because as soon as he had started to fall, he had commended himself to Our Lady of Vauvert, and she had held him up by the shoulders from the time he fell until the king's galley picked him up.

—John of Joinville, The Life of Saint Louis