[600] Ord. Vit. (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._), p. 838. [601] They were descended, one in the fifth, the other in the sixth degree, from Richard the Fearless; Ord. Vit. as above, giving details of the pedigree. [602] Brief of Calixtus II., August 26 [1124], in D’Achéry, _Spicilegium_, vol. iii. p. 479. [603] Brief of Honorius II., April 12 [1125], _ibid._ [604] Ord. Vit. (as above), p. 882. Next Christmas Henry struck his final blow at his nephew’s hopes of the succession. An old tradition which declared that whatsoever disturber of the realm of France was brought face to face with the might of S. Denis would die within a twelvemonth was fulfilled in the person of the Emperor Henry V.[605] His widow, the only surviving child of Henry of England and the “Good Queen Maude,” was summoned back to her father’s court.[606] She came not without regret, for she had dwelt from childhood among her husband’s people, and was held by them in great esteem. The dying Emperor had no child to take his place. He had committed his sceptre to his consort;[607] and some of the princes of Lombardy and Lorraine took this symbolical bequest in such earnest that they actually followed Matilda over sea to demand her back as their sovereign.[608] But King Henry had other plans for his daughter. At the midwinter assembly of 1126–1127 he made the barons and prelates of England swear that in case of his death without lawful son they would acknowledge her as Lady of England and Normandy.[609] [605] Suger, _Vita Ludov._, c. 21 (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xii. p. 52). Henry V. died in Whit-week, 1125; Ord. Vit. (as above). [606] Will. Jumièges Contin., l. viii. c. 25 (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._, p. 304). Will. Malm. _Hist. Nov._, l. i. c. 1 (Hardy, p. 689). She went to England with her father in September 1126. Eng. Chron. ad ann. [607] Ord. Vit. as above. [608] Will. Jumièges Contin. and Will. Malm. as above. [609] Eng. Chron. a. 1127. Will. Jumièges Contin., l. viii. c. 25 (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._, p. 304). Will. Malm. _Hist. Nov._, l. i. cc. 2, 3 (Hardy, pp. 690–692).