Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Sources
All this year King Henry remained in Normandy, and was greatly
harrassed by the war with the King of France, and by the treachery of
his own men, who were continually revolting from him, till at length
the two Kings with their forces met in Normandy. The King of France
was there put to flight and all his best men taken, and many of King
Henry’s vassals who had kept their castles against him, now submitted,
and were reconciled to him, and some of the castles he took by force.
This year, William the son of King Henry and of Queen Mahald went to
Normandy to his father, and the daughter of the Earl of Anjou was there
given and wedded to him. On Michaelmas eve there was a great earthquake
in some parts of this land; and it was felt most in Gloucestershire
and Worcestershire. The same year Pope Gelasius died on this side of
the mountains, and he was buried at Cluny; and the Archbishop of Vienne
was chosen Pope, his name was Calixtus. He afterwards came to Rheims,
in France, on the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, and held a council
there. And Turstein Archbishop of York journeyed thither, and because
he received consecration from the Pope, against right, and to the
prejudice of the see of Canterbury, and against the King’s will, Henry
wholly forbade his return to England; and being thus deprived of his
Archbishoprick, he proceeded with the Pope towards Rome. This year also
Baldwin Earl of Flanders died of the wound which he had received in
Normandy, and was succeeded by Charles the son of his aunt and of St.
Cnut, King of Denmark.
1120.
This year peace was made between the Kings of England and of France,
and after this all King Henry’s own men in Normandy made their peace
with him; also the Earls of Flanders and of Ponthieu. Then the King
ordered and disposed of his castles and land in Normandy after his own
will; and so, before Advent, he returned to England. And the King’s two
sons William and Richard were drowned in the passage, together with
Richard Earl of Chester, and Ottuel his brother; and very many of the
King’s Court; stewards, and chamberlains, and butlers, and other men
in office, and an innumerable multitude of all ranks, were also lost.
The manner of their death was a twofold grief to their friends, first
because they lost their lives so suddenly, and next that few of their
bodies were ever found. And this year that remarkable light twice came
upon our Lord’s sepulchre at Jerusalem, once at Easter, and again on
the Assumption of St. Mary, according to the report of men of credit,
who came from thence. And Turstein Archbishop of York was reconciled
to the King through the Pope, and he came to this land, and was put in
possession of his Archbishoprick, though much against the will of the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
1121.
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