[1207] "He was advanced to the earldom of Gloucester by the king (his father). After which, in Anno 1119 (20 Hen. I.), he attended him in that famous battle at Brennevill," etc., etc. (Baronage, i. 534).
[1208] A paper on the earldom was read by the late Mr. J. G. Nichols, at the Gloucester Congress of the Institute (1851), but I do not find that it was ever printed, so that I cannot give the date which he assigned.
[1209] Athenæum, May 9 and June 27, 1885.
[1210] Academy, September 29, 1883 (p. 207).
[1211] v. 199.
[1212] iv. 302.
[1213] The king promised the charter on the occasion of his visit (February 3, 1113), and when it had been drawn up, it received his formal approval at Rouen, "Anno quo comes Andegavensis mecum pacem fecit et Cenomanniam de me, meus homo factus, recepit."
[1214] Abingdon Cartulary, ii. 77.
[1215] Henry remained abroad between the above dates.
[1216] Gallia Christiana, xi. (Instrumenta), pp. 111-112. The charter is there assigned, but without any reason being given, to 1118. A collation, however, of this record with the names given by Ordericus Vitalis (iv. 329) of those present at the Council of Rouen, October 7, 1118, makes it all but certain that it passed on that occasion.