[25]. Op. cit., p. 181.
[26]. This is the duty of “hospitium,” exemption from which was frequently granted in Anglo-Norman charters.
[27]. Swegen, Godwine’s eldest son, went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and died on his way back.
[28]. See the map of the earldoms in 1066 given by Freeman, Norman Conquest, ii.
[29]. In the next generation there was a tradition that Gospatric had been murdered by Queen Edith on her brother’s behalf, Florence of Worcester, 1065.
[30]. Victoria History of Northamptonshire, i., 262–3.
[31]. In addition to the future Conqueror one other child was born to Robert and Arlette—a daughter named Adeliz, who married Count Enguerrand of Ponthieu; and after Robert’s death Arlette herself became the lawful wife of a Norman knight named Herlwin of Conteville, whose two sons, Odo, bishop of Bayeux, and Robert, count of Mortain, play a considerable part in the succeeding history.
[32]. Ralf Glaber, iv., 6.
[33]. De la Borderie, Histoire de Bretagne, iii., 8–12.
[34]. Round, Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, 526.