William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

[254]. Florence of Worcester, 1074.

[255]. Worcester Chronicle, 1076.

[256]. Epistolæ Lanfranci.

[257]. Florence of Worcester, 1074.

[258]. It does not appear that any medieval historian regarded this as an act of treachery on Waltheof’s part.

[259]. F. N. C., iv., 585.

[260]. Gesta Regum, ii., 312.

[261]. This point is made by Pollock and Maitland. H. E. L., i., 291.

[262]. For the rest of the Conqueror’s reign, there was peace between Normandy and Brittany, except that in 1086 William, to whom the new count Alan Fergant, the son of Hoel, had refused homage, crossed the border once more and laid siege to Dol. In this siege also he was unsuccessful, and speedily came to terms with Alan, who received Constance, the Conqueror’s daughter, in marriage.

[263]. Simeon of Durham, 1075.