Bernard's chronicle is mainly interested in Saint Martial's and in local affairs, but his interest in the Crusades covers a wide swathe from Spain to Byzantium to Egypt and the Holy Land. He has little to say about the Capetian–Plantagenet rivalry, despite being an important source for the last campaign of King Richard I of England. His note on Richard's death is an addition to Geoffrey's chronicle. In another note, he lists fourteen castles belonging to the viscount of Limoges that were besieged by Richard's forces in 1199.