[494] “Henry married Adala, daughter of Godfrey, conte de Louvain, in February, 1121.”—Hardy.
[495] “Bromton (col. 1013, x. Scrip.) ascribes to Malmesbury words which are no where to be found in this author, ‘Willelmus Malmesbiriensis dicit, quod ille Willelmus regis primogenitus palam Anglis fuerat comminatus, quod, si aliquando super eos regnaret, faceret eos ad aratrum trahere quasi boves: sed spe sua coruscabili Dei vindicta cum aliis deperiit.’”—Hardy.
[496] “The nuptials of prince William with Matilda, daughter of the earl of Anjou, were celebrated in June, 1119, before the council of Rheims.”—Hardy.
[498] Virgil Æneid. v. 206.
[499] He is called a butcher by Orderic Vitalis, p. 867, who has many particulars of this event.
[500] “The marriage of William, son of the duke of Normandy, with Sibilla, in 1123, was dissolved, at the instance of king Henry, in the following year, by the pope’s legate.”—Hardy.
[501] “Matilda was betrothed to the emperor Henry V. in 1109, but was not married to him until the 7th January, 1114.”—Hardy.
[502] The church of St. Maria, in Scuola Græca, is so called, from a tradition that St. Augustine, before his conversion, there taught rhetoric.—See Lumisden, 318.
[503] Trastevere, that part in which St. Peter’s is situated.