[385] Chron. S. Maxent. ad ann. (Marchegay, _Eglises_, p. 390). [386] She was Adelmodia, widow of Boso, count of La Marche, and daughter of William count of Arles and “Candida,” otherwise Adelaide the White; see Pet. Maillezais, l. i. c. 6 (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. x. p. 182), and note B at end of chapter. [387] See note C at end of chapter iv. below. [388] Chronn. S. Maxent. a. 1032, S. Albin. and S. Flor. Salm. a. 1033 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 391, 392, 23, 188); S. Serg. a. 1028 (_ib._ p. 135). Fulk Rechin (Marchegay, _Comtes_), p. 378. Cf. _Gesta Cons._ (_ibid._), pp. 128–130, and note C to chapter iv. below. [389] Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1036 (as above, p. 392). [390] “Sanctonas cum toto pago.” Chron. Tur. Magn., Salmon, _Chron. de Touraine_, p. 122. (The date, “anno Henrici Imperatoris iv et Henrici regis xiii,” is of course absurd, like most of the dates in the Tours chronicle at this period, except those which relate to local matters). Cf. _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), p. 126, and note C to chapter iv. below. [391] Will. Malm. _Gesta Reg._, l. iii. c. 231 (Hardy, p. 395). Cf. Will. Poitiers (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._), p. 182. Then Geoffrey threw off the mask. William had no children; his next heir was his half-brother Odo, the son of his father’s second marriage with Brisca, heiress of Gascony.[392] But after Brisca’s death, William the Great had married a third wife, whom he had left a still young widow with three little children. Before William the Fat had been many months dead, his stepmother the widowed Countess Agnes gave her hand to Geoffrey of Vendôme.[393] Geoffrey’s motive is plain; he sought to prevent the union of Poitou and Gascony and to get the former practically into his own hands as stepfather and guardian to the young sons of Agnes. But in Anjou the wedding gave great scandal; Geoffrey and Agnes were denounced in the harshest terms as too near akin to marry.[394] They seem in fact to have been, by the reckoning of the canon law, cousins in the third degree, as being, one a grandson, the other a great-granddaughter of Adela of Chalon, the second wife of Geoffrey Greygown.[395] At any rate they were looked upon as sinners, and by no one more than the bridegroom’s father. The whole scheme of Geoffrey’s meddlings in Aquitaine was repugnant to Fulk Nerra’s policy; he looked to his son to complete his own labours in Touraine and Maine, and it was no good omen for the fulfilment of his hopes when Geoffrey thus turned his back upon his appointed work for the love of Countess Agnes or of her late husband’s possessions. The capture of William the Fat had been the signal for the first outbreak of a “more than civil war” between father and son;[396] Geoffrey’s misconduct during his regency in Anjou brought matters to the crisis which ended