William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

[234]. Gesta Herewardi, R. S.

[235]. See Varenbergh, Relations Diplomatiques entre le comté de Flandre et l’Angleterre. Luchaire, Les Premiers Capetiens, 169.

[236]. Halphen, Comté d’Anjou, 180, has shown that Azo had appeared in Maine by the spring of 1069.

[237]. The authorities for the present war are the history of Ordericus Vitalis and the life of Bishop Arnold of Le Mans, ed. Mabillon; Vetera Analecta.

[238]. “Facta conspiratione quam communionem vocabant.”—Vet. An., 215.

[239]. Gesta Regum, ii., 316.

[240]. Vetera Analecta, 286.

[241]. Hoel, unlike his predecessors, followed a policy of friendship towards Anjou, and restored to Fulk le Rechin the conquests made by Count Conan on the Angevin march. De la Borderie, iii., 26.

[242]. The terms of the peace of Blanchelande are given by Orderic.

[243]. E. H. R., xx., 61.