[74] See N. C. vol. ii. pp. 138, 352.
[75] Ib. vol. iii. p. 132; iv. p. 448.
[76] Ib. vol. iii. p. 737.
[77] Ib. vol. iii. p. 233.
[78] Ord. Vit. 666 D. See N. C. vol. iv. pp. 74, 489.
[80] See his picture in Orderic, 703 B. “Præfatus præsul nobilitate cluebat, magisque peritia militari quam clericali vigebat. Ideoque loricatos milites ad bellandum quam revestitos clericos ad psallendum magis erudire noverat.”
[81] See N. C. vol. iv. p. 672. Orderic gives his portrait along with that of his uncle; “Robertus Rogerii de Molbraio filius potentia divitiisque admodum pollebat, audacia et militari feritate superbus pares despiciebat, et superbioribus obtemperare, vana ventositate turgidus, indignum autumabat. Erat erim corpore magnus, fortis, niger et hispidus, audax et dolosus, vultu tristis et severus. Plus meditari quam loqui studebat, et vix in confabulatione ridebat.”
[82] Chron. Petrib. 1088. “Swiðe mycel folc mid heom, ealle Frencisce men.” He must mean that all the leaders were French. We shall see (see below, [p. 47]) that there were both Englishmen and Britons in the rebel army.
[83] Flor. Wig. 1088.