Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Sources
This year King Henry was in Normandy till after harvest; and he came to
this land between the Nativity of St. Mary, and Michaelmas, accompanied
by the Queen, and by his daughter whom he had before given in marriage
to the Emperor Henry of Lorrain. He brought with him the Earl Waleram,
and Hugh the son of Gervais, and he imprisoned the Earl at Bridgenorth,
and he afterwards sent him to Wallingford, and he sent Hugh to
Windsor, and caused him to be put into hard bonds. And after Michaelmas
David King of Scotland came hither, and King Henry received him with
much honour, and he abode through the year in this land.--The same year
the King caused his brother Robert to be taken from Roger Bishop of
Salisbury, and delivered to his son Robert Earl of Gloucester, and he
caused him to be removed to Bristol, and put into the castle. All this
was done through the advice of his daughter, and of her uncle David
King of Scotland.
1127.
This year, at Christmas, King Henry held his Court at Windsor, and
David King of Scotland was there, and all the head men of England, both
clergy and laity. And the King caused the Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots,
Earls, and all the Thanes who were present, to swear to place England
and Normandy after his death in the hands of his daughter the Princess,
who had been the wife of the Emperor of Saxony. And then he sent her
to Normandy, accompanied by her brother Robert Earl of Gloucester, and
by Brian the son of the Earl Alein Fergan; and he caused her to be
wedded to the son of the Earl of Anjou, named Geoffrey Martel. Howbeit
this displeased all the French and the English, but the King did it to
obtain peace from the Earl of Anjou and aid against his nephew William.
The same year Charles Earl of Flanders was slain in Lent, by his own
men, as he lay before the altar in a church, and prayed to God during
mass. And the King of France brought William the son of the Earl of
Normandy, and gave him the earldom, and the men of Flanders received
him.--The same William had before taken to wife the daughter of the
Earl of Anjou, but they were afterwards divorced because of their
nearness of kin, and this through the interference of Henry King of
England; he afterwards married the sister of the King of France, and
on this account the King gave him the earldom of Flanders.--The same
year Henry gave the Abbacy of Peterborough to an Abbot named Henry of
Poitou, who was in possession of the Abbacy of St. Jean d’Angely; and
all the Archbishops and Bishops said that this grant was against right,
and that he could not have in hand two Abbacies. But the same Henry
made the King believe that he had given up his Abbey on account of the
great disquietude of the land, and that he had done so by the order
and with the leave of the Pope of Rome, and of the Abbot of Cluny,
and because he was Legate for collecting the Romescot. Nevertheless it
was not so, but he wished to keep both Abbeys in his own hands, and he
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