Geoffrey’s lawful property than any part of the Angevin dominions--his paternal heritage of the Gâtinais.[518] It thus became Philip’s interest as well as Fulk’s to keep Geoffrey in prison. For the next twenty-eight years he lay in a dungeon at Chinon,[519] and Fulk ruled Anjou in his stead. [506] See note B at end of chapter. [507] “It needs some self-sacrifice to give up the only lay historian whom we have come across since the days of our own Æthelweard.” Freeman, _Norm. Conq._, 3d ed. vol. ii. p. 638. [508] This seems to be the meaning of “Rechin.” [509] _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), pp. 138, 139. [510] _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), pp. 134–137. See also _Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xii. p. 664, note. [511] Will. Jumièges, l. vii. c. 33 (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._, p. 286). Chron. Brioc. and Chron. Britann. a. 1066 (Morice, _Hist. Bret., preuves_, vol. i. cols. 36, 102). Chronn. Rain. Andeg., S. Serg. and Vindoc. a. 1067 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 12, 137, 168)--which, however, means 1066, as all these chronicles place both the comet and the conquest in the same year. [512] Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1067 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 403, 404). This was February 25 (_ibid._). [513] Chronn. Rain. Andeg., S. Albin., S. Serg., Vindoc. a. 1067 (_ib._ pp. 12, 25, 137, 138, 168). _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_, pp. 138, 139), antedated by a year. [514] Chronn. Rain. Andeg., S. Albin. (as above); S. Serg. (_ib._ p. 138); Vindoc. (_ib._ pp. 168, 169). [515] Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1067 (_ib._ p. 404). [516] Fulk Rechin (Marchegay, _Comtes_), p. 379. [517] _Ib._ pp. 379, 380. Chronn. Rain. Andeg., S. Albin., S. Serg. and Vindoc. a. 1068 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 12, 26, 138, 169). [518] _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), p. 139. Chron. Turon. Magn. a. 1067 (Salmon, _Chron. de Touraine_, p. 125)--a date which must be at least a year too early. [519] Ord. Vit. (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._), pp. 723, 818. He makes it thirty years, but the dates are undoubtedly 1068–1096.