[619] Concil. Juliobonens. ann. 1080 can. 3, 5 (Orderic. Vital. P. II. Lib. V. c. 6.—Harduin. Concil. T. VI. P. I. p. 1599).—Propter eorum feminas nulla pecuniæ emendatio exigatur.
[620] Pauli Carnot. Vet. Agano. Lib. VIII. c. 11.
[621] Gregor. VII. Regist. Lib. IX. Epist. 5.
[622] Gaufridi Grossi Vit. Bernardi Tironens. c. 6 §§ 51-54.
[623] Gregor. VII. Epist. Extrav. 29.—Epist. in Martene Thesaur. III. 871-6.
[624] Roujoux, Hist, de Bretagne, II. 98-99. The independence affected by the Breton church is well shown in a singularly impertinent letter addressed to Leo IX. by the clergy of Nantes, refusing to receive a bishop appointed by him, after the degradation for simony of Prodicus by the council of Rheims in 1050 (Martene Thesaur. I. 172-3).
[625] Martene Thesaur. III. 882.—Haddan and Stubbs II. 96.
[626] Gregor. VII. Regist. Lib. IV. Epistt. 10, 11.
[627] Ebrardi Chron. Watinens. cap. 22-3. Ebrard was a contemporary, a disciple of Otfrid, and therefore his statement of the motives of the persecution is entitled to credence.
[628] “Addens malos sacerdotes sacerdotes non esse, acsi peccator homo non esset homo.” From the tenor of Robert’s defence it is evident that it was the children of the clerks whom he disinherited. The documents are in Warnkönig, Hist. de Flandre, I. 330-3 (Bruxelles, 1835).