[45]. Round, Calendar, No. 251.
[46]. Luchaire, Institutions monarchiques, ii., 233.
[47]. This is asserted very strongly by Freeman, ii., 201, and is implied by Luchaire, Les Premières Capétiens, 163.
[48]. The whole story of the duke’s ride from Valognes to Falaise rests upon the sole authority of Wace, and is only given here as a matter of tradition.
[49]. The topography of the battle is derived from Wace.
[50]. William of Poitiers, 81.
[51]. Ordericus Vitalis (iii., 342) makes a pointed reference to the length of time occupied by the present siege in comparison with the capture of Brionne in a single day by Robert of Normandy in 1090. But it is impossible to accept his statement that the resistance of Guy of Burgundy was protracted for three years.
[52]. William of Poitiers, 81: “Bella domestica apud nos in longum sopivit.”
[53]. In the imperfectly feudalised state of England a stricter doctrine seems to have prevailed: see, on Waltheof’s case below, page 338.[338.]
[54]. This rests on no better authority than Wace. We know with more certainty that the lands which Grimbald forfeited were bestowed by William upon the See of Bayeux, of which Odo, the duke’s brother, became bishop in 1048.—Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 644.